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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Crispin Cowan <crispin@wirex.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux Security Module <linux-security-module@wirex.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make LSM register functions GPLonly exports
Date: 17 Oct 2002 20:03:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1034877846.3006.2.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3DAEF703.20009@wirex.com>

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On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 19:44, Crispin Cowan wrote:

> Note that if we decide that #include of a kernel header file means that 
> a work is derived, then we cause another problem: most Linux 
> applications come under the GPL.  glibc #includes some kernel header 
> files, and most Linux applications #include glibc headers, so most 
> applications are #including kernel header files. If #include is the 
> basis for declaring a module to be a derived work of the kernel, then 
> there is some bad news coming for people who like to use Oracle and DB2 
> on Linux ...
> 
difference is that glibc only uses the glibc-kernheaders; which on
several distros at least are just the data structures and not the
inlines. (and the inlines are in #ifdef KERNEL anyway and removed by the
preprocessor for userspace)

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-17 17:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-17 14:35 [PATCH] make LSM register functions GPLonly exports Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 15:07 ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 15:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 16:21   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-10-17 16:51   ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-17 16:54     ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-10-17 17:08       ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-17 17:20         ` Greg KH
2002-10-17 17:25         ` Linus Torvalds
2002-10-17 20:39           ` Ingo Molnar
2002-10-17 17:44         ` Crispin Cowan
2002-10-17 18:03           ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2002-10-17 17:20       ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-10-17 17:26         ` Linus Torvalds

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