Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

[Alexander Terekhov]

Ben Pfaff wrote:
[...]
> Linux is not designed to support pluggable schedulers, and in
> fact Linus has expressly said that he does not want Linux to
> easily support dropping in alternate schedulers.  Thus,
> implementing a new scheduler in Linux is fairly likely to require
> significant modifications to Linux outside the new scheduler
> itself.

"Significant modifications to Linux outside the new scheduler itself"
may well constitute a derivative work. But that don't change the status
of the new scheduler itself being entirely original and not a derivative
work. Grok it now?

regards,
alexander.

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