From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: Daniel Phillips <phillips@google.com>,
bidulock@openss7.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:29:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060614142903.GI11542@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060614133022.GU11863@sunbeam.de.gnumonks.org>
On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:30:22PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:12:41PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > This has the makings of a nice stable internal kernel api. Why do we want
> > to provide this nice stable internal api to proprietary modules?
>
> because there is IMHO legally nothing we can do about it anyway. Use of
> an industry-standard API that is provided in multiple operating system
> is one of the clearest idnication of some program _not_ being a
> derivative work.
IMHO there is no industry-standard API for in-kernel use of sockets.
There is however one for user space.
Erik
(IANAL, etc)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-14 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-12 23:56 [RFC/PATCH 1/2] in-kernel sockets API Sridhar Samudrala
2006-06-13 5:07 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-06-13 11:13 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2006-06-13 11:22 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 21:12 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-13 21:40 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 22:00 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-13 22:30 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-13 22:47 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 23:59 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:31 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:53 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 6:07 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 7:58 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 9:28 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 10:43 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-14 10:54 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 10:36 ` Theodore Tso
2006-06-13 22:44 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-13 23:42 ` Ben Greear
2006-06-14 0:05 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:18 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:29 ` Chase Venters
2006-06-14 0:36 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 0:19 ` Ben Greear
2006-06-14 0:38 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 13:30 ` Harald Welte
2006-06-14 14:29 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2006-06-14 15:26 ` Harald Welte
2006-06-14 17:48 ` Daniel Phillips
2006-06-14 18:03 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2006-06-14 20:52 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2006-06-13 14:58 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-06-13 16:27 ` Sridhar Samudrala
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