From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: rob@landley.net
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
"Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:54:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4569C9.2090404@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308212032.25334.rob@landley.net>
Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>One way or another (direct inclusion, or via glibc-kernheaders pkg) the
>>headers today are GPL'd not LGPL'd... so I suppose it remains the realm
>>of lawyers...
> So I take it one of the goals of cleaned and pressed kernel-ABI headers for
> 2.7 would be to have them distributable under LGPL? (Just trying to be
> explicit, here...)
Changing the status quo involves lots of pain: querying every author if
it's ok to change the license, and dealing with authors that don't want
to change the license, or, rewriting the headers under a new license, etc.
I think it's best to do what we can from the technical perspective.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-22 0:55 UTC|newest]
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2003-08-18 18:54 ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-18 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 12:32 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-19 17:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 21:38 ` Will uclibc be supported in 2.6? (was Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.) Rob Landley
2003-08-19 21:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-20 1:42 ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Erik Andersen
2003-08-20 23:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-22 0:32 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22 0:50 ` Chris Friesen
2003-08-22 1:58 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22 0:54 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-08-18 20:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 12:36 Andries.Brouwer
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2003-08-18 12:19 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-18 12:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 18:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 18:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 16:13 ` Patrick Mansfield
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