Messages in this thread | | | From | "Kendall Bennett" <> | Date | Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:15:11 -0800 | Subject | Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? |
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Jesse Pollard <jesse@cats-chateau.net> wrote:
> It is if you are referring to the Kernel. Look at the include > files. They are licened under GPL. > > Look at the include files for applications. They are licenced > under LGPL.
Really? Have you looked at the include files for Linux? The standard C include files that nearly every program uses will end up also *including* Linux kernel header files in order to build programs for Linux. Not all programs will end up including those files, but a very large portion will.
If you don't believe me, do a grep under /usr/include/sys on your machine for 'linux', and see how many of the header files include stuff from /usr/include/linux. All the files under /usr/include/linux are part of the kernel, so theoretically under the pure GPL, not LGPL.
Then again I say 'theoretically' because once again there is nary a kernel header file in sight that actually *has* a GPL license header attached! So who knows what license those files are *really* under.
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