From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750873AbWDLFqL (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:46:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750871AbWDLFqL (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:46:11 -0400 Received: from elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net ([209.86.89.70]:29111 "EHLO elasmtp-banded.atl.sa.earthlink.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750818AbWDLFqK (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Apr 2006 01:46:10 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=dk20050327; d=earthlink.net; b=Cwz+dhon/FzOwtI5tCQ9jMOIg09HdjnmgaslmNb4KGqmePKdqA6+b9nip5GtCJP2; h=Received:Message-ID:From:To:Cc:References:Subject:Date:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Priority:X-MSMail-Priority:X-Mailer:X-MimeOLE:X-ELNK-Trace:X-Originating-IP; Message-ID: <004101c65df4$5eb71ce0$0225a8c0@Wednesday> From: "jdow" To: "Arjan van de Ven" , "Mark Lord" Cc: "Joshua Hudson" , "Ramakanth Gunuganti" , References: <20060411063127.97362.qmail@web54314.mail.yahoo.com> <20060411230642.GV23222@vasa.acc.umu.se> <443C716C.1060103@rtr.ca> <1144819887.3089.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Subject: Re: GPL issues Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 22:45:55 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2869 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2869 X-ELNK-Trace: bb89ecdb26a8f9f24d2b10475b57112070bd049b346111769db8aecc8b9e28f53d22eb99cf5c6dcb350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 71.116.162.101 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:18 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: >> Joshua Hudson wrote: >> > On 4/11/06, David Weinehall wrote: >> >> OK, simplified rules; if you follow them you should generally be OK: >> .. >> >> 3. Userspace code that uses interfaces that was not exposed to userspace >> >> before you change the kernel --> GPL (but don't do it; there's almost >> >> always a reason why an interface is not exported to userspace) >> >> >> >> 4. Userspace code that only uses existing interfaces --> choose >> >> license yourself (but of course, GPL would be nice...) >> >> Err.. there is ZERO difference between situations 3 and 4. >> Userspace code can be any license one wants, regardless of where >> or when or how the syscalls are added to the kernel. > > that is not so clear if the syscalls were added exclusively for this > application by the authors of the application.... Consider a book. The book is GPLed. I do not have to GPL my brain when I read the book. I add some margin notes to the GPLed book. I still do not have to GPL my brain when I read the book. {^_^} Joanne Dow