From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
To: rob@landley.net
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
"Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:50:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4568D2.5080705@nortelnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200308212032.25334.rob@landley.net
Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>If userspace applications are ultimately compiled using Linux header
>>>files, indirectly included via Glibc or some other libc, and the
>>>kernel header files are GPL (version 2 only; not LGPL or any later
>>>GPL), isn't distributing those binary applications a gross violation
>>>of the GPL in some cases?
>>One way or another (direct inclusion, or via glibc-kernheaders pkg) the
>>headers today are GPL'd not LGPL'd... so I suppose it remains the realm
>>of lawyers...
> So I take it one of the goals of cleaned and pressed kernel-ABI headers for
> 2.7 would be to have them distributable under LGPL? (Just trying to be
> explicit, here...)
I thought that this case (including kernel headers) was the whole point
of the exemption in the COPYING file. Am I missing something?
Chris
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2003-08-18 18:54 ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-18 19:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 12:32 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-19 17:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 21:38 ` Will uclibc be supported in 2.6? (was Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.) Rob Landley
2003-08-19 21:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-20 1:42 ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Erik Andersen
2003-08-20 23:48 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 0:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-22 0:32 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22 0:50 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2003-08-22 1:58 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22 0:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 20:40 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 12:36 Andries.Brouwer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-18 12:19 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-18 12:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 18:08 ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 18:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 15:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 16:13 ` Patrick Mansfield
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