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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Muhammad Ali <M.ALI023@hotmail.com>
Cc: "Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org" <Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Re: UAPI syscall exception interpretation
Date: Thu, 12 May 2022 06:03:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YnyHBUhPQE37eP17@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR07MB60744EB138CC00DDE2E83C22D9C89@DM6PR07MB6074.namprd07.prod.outlook.com>

On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 09:19:42PM +0000, Muhammad Ali wrote:
> Consider a file: ftpclient.c
> Only include is: #include <sys/socket.h>
> Then a few hundred lines of personal code.
> Then compiler/linker take in ftpcliebt.c and produce a.out (statically or dynamically linked, consider both cases if it makes a licensing difference)
> 
> Does the Linux-syscall-note say that a.out can ALL be under any license of your choice?
> 
> Or do you have to note that your binary is under License X and also includes code which is under license GPL-2.0-WITH-Linux-syscall-note?

For legal issues, please contact a lawyer.  You wouldn't ask a random
internet mailing list full of programmers questions about dental care,
right?  :)

Good luck!

greg k-h

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-05-12  4:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-11 21:19 UAPI syscall exception interpretation Muhammad Ali
2022-05-12  4:03 ` Greg KH [this message]
2022-05-12 23:21   ` Muhammad Ali
2022-05-13  5:36     ` Greg KH
2022-05-13 20:43       ` Muhammad Ali
2022-05-14  2:00 ` Valdis Klētnieks

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