From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265177AbTLROZi (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:25:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265178AbTLROZi (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:25:38 -0500 Received: from 34.mufa.noln.chcgil24.dsl.att.net ([12.100.181.34]:51448 "EHLO tabby.cats.internal") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265177AbTLROZd (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Dec 2003 09:25:33 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="CP 1252" From: Jesse Pollard To: Randy Zagar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:24:50 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <1071738720.25032.496.camel@otter.zagar.linux-dude.net> In-Reply-To: <1071738720.25032.496.camel@otter.zagar.linux-dude.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <03121808245000.14685@tabby> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 18 December 2003 03:12, Randy Zagar wrote: [snip] > p.s. The first thing I'm going to do after I build my time machine is > go visit Finland and say "Use the LGPL, Linus". I believe he did, and he decided the LGPL did not apply since the Kernel is a "main program", and not really a library. Now if Linux were converted to a microkernel then things might be different. Unfortunately, most of the hardware linux runs on doesn't support the microkernel structure efficently (not enough general registers, insufficiently fine grained memory address control, uncontroled DMA, and too much time in context switching...)