Re: Patch 2/9] Initialization

[Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>]

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Mer, 2006-03-15 at 11:24 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
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>>>+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>>>+ * under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License
>>>+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>>>+ *
>>>      
>>>
>>LGPL inside the kernel doesn't make a whole lot of sense.... better make
>>it GPL.
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>When you combine an LGPL and GPL work you get a GPL work so yes it would
>be clearer to mark it GPL as that is what it became as it was merged,
>but perhaps to add a note stating where it can be obtained under other
>licenses for other projects.
>
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Thanks. The LGPL usage is a mistake in the core code....will change to GPL
everywhere except the  case below. There's no intent to have the kernel 
code available
under other licenses etc. so thats not a problem.

However, the confusion about what license to use for a header file that 
will need to be
included in a potentially non-GPL user application persists. The header file
    include/linux/taskstats.h, created in patch 9/9
    http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0603.1/1925.html

defines the user-kernel messaging interface and should probably continue 
to have LGPL,
just to be absolutely safe legally. I've not been following the legal 
twists too carefully so
its probably overkill.

--Shailabh