From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Leeman Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 08:27:17 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] GPL Licensing issues In-Reply-To: <6.1.1.1.0.20040926174406.01e1d130@wheresmymailserver.com> References: <6.1.1.1.0.20040926124409.01e178d0@wheresmymailserver.com> <6.1.1.1.0.20040926174406.01e1d130@wheresmymailserver.com> Message-ID: <1f729c4804092623274a63a453@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de > The files in the examples directory - since everything needs to be linked > to u-boot to work, and u-boot is released under the GPL, does that mean > that custom user applications are also under the GPL - or do you use > Linus's relationship of kernel/application separation? Didn't linux say that linking involves using the GPL. I remember a discussion about this very topic a couple of months ago on the lkml (about the nvidia modules). As far as I am concerned, including GPL header files makes your application GPL (since you implicitly verbatim copy code). This being said, I have problems convincing collegues who are convinced that they write a piece of 'original' code and don't want to make it public... -- ash nazg durbatul?k, ash nazg gimbatul, ash nazg thrakatul?k agh burzum-ishi krimpatul