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SubjectRe: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]]
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On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 21:32, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote:
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> 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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