Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Sun, 05 Oct 2003 21:54:37 +0200 |
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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 21:32, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote: > > On the other hand any running program on linux dynamically links (via > syscalls) against the kernel... I think everyone agrees that dynamically > linking against the kernel in this manner should be allowed and not a > violation of the GPL of the kernel source...
"linking" is a bit tricky here. Traditionally linking involves resolving addresses of symbols from the other part; system calls don't have any of this, they are hard coded, documented and fixed numbers... numbers that also work on BSD and AIX (in the linux personality).
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