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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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  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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