From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262137AbUB2VDa (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:03:30 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262140AbUB2VDa (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:03:30 -0500 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:56738 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262137AbUB2VD3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:03:29 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0 Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Transmeta Corporation, Santa Clara CA Message-ID: References: <200402291942.45392.mmazur@kernel.pl> <200402292130.55743.mmazur@kernel.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: terminus.zytor.com 1078088582 12345 63.209.29.3 (29 Feb 2004 21:03:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news@terminus.zytor.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 21:03:02 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Followup to: <200402292130.55743.mmazur@kernel.pl> By author: Mariusz Mazur In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Sunday 29 of February 2004 21:19, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Dumb but important question: what is the copyright on these headers? > > They are based on original linux headers, so gpl of course. > If so, we actually have a bit of an issue w.r.t. the potential legality of these headers. Technically they're incompatible with LGPL and BSD-licensed libraries; I think we need some kind of official declaration that compiling against them is permitted. -hpa