Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

[Hyman Rosen]

Barry Margolin wrote:
> It's not the scheduler that's a derivative, it's the new Linux kernel 
> that results from replacing the scheduler in the old kernel.  I.e.
>
> Linux - schedulerA + schedulerB => derivative of Linux.

But the new scheduler itself is not entangled with the copyright
of Linux. And the combined work of Linux + new scheduler is a
derivative of Linux only if the changes to use the new scheduler
involved enough modifications to Linux to consider them a significant
work of authorship.