Just because it's a small bit of code doesn't make it right.. The world
doesn't need another propritary OS, esp. one that can't respect the GPL.
I can see it now:
BeOs Kernel: Code portions (C)1995 Linus Torvalds, taken from the Linux
operating system.
On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Marc Lehmann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 12:33:21AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > It boots fine with both loadlin and lilo, which made my look into the file a
> > > bit more:
> >
> > Firstly its meant to boot with Lilo. AFAIK Be both openly use and ship Lilo
> > according to the rules
>
> This is surely the reason why they changed all strings from "LILO" to
> "BELO" etc...
>
> > Its possible someone made an innocent mistake in what is and is not 'Lilo'.
> > Also if they provide source and notice for the loader since its simply a loader
> > for another program not linked with it (well not in I think a meaningful way)
> > its probably ok if they distribute the source and GPL credits for the
> > bootcode they are using.
>
> Remember that we are not talking about LILO. The code they took is from
> linux-2.0.27(?)/arch/i386/compressed
>
> I cannot imagine somebody confusing this with lilo. This is clearly kernel
> code. The question is wether (pseudocode) "ld boot-loader.o kernel-image.gz"
> is considered "linking". (at least they used the linker to do this).
>
> Again, there is no sign of lilo code in it. it's _kernel_ code.
>
> It might have surely been some dumb attempt at getting beos to boot with
> lilo or loadlin, but this is the beos kernel image, and it clearly contains
> linux code. Wether or not they give credits (to my knowledge, they didnt
> (renaming their bootloader from lilo to belo isn't exactly fine, either)),
> is another important question only somebody owning the commercial beos
> distribution can answer.
>
> In any case, I doubt they will have a notice saying "The beos kernel image
> was linked together with some linux code".
>
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