Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 09:22:28 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Module Licensing? |
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> Since your program, which happens to consist of one open > source part and one proprietary part, is partly a derived > work from the kernel source (by using kernel header files > and the inline functions in it) your whole work must be > distributed under the GPL.
This is obviously incorrect, that would say that
#include <sys/types.h>
means my app is now GPLed. Good luck enforcing that. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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