Re: GPL 2(b) HUH?

[Ciaran O'Riordan]

If your scheduler was truly generic and could (even just theoretically) be
plugged into many kernels, then you might be free from copyright
obligations.

But being serious, writing a generic scheduler isn't practical.  That would
be like writing a generic "chapter 8" that can replace chapter 8 of not just
Harry Potter but also many other too :-)

Making a generic sound file is practical, because it's not so intimately
tied in, so as I said in my initial examples, a generic sound file could be
inserted into the/any kernel without becoming GPL'd.  But a scheduler,
excluding toy proof-of-whacky-concept projects, no.

Speaking of copyright and Harry Potter:
http://stallman.org/harry-potter.html

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