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Joshua Hudson wrote: > On 4/11/06, David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se> wrote: >> OK, simplified rules; if you follow them you should generally be OK: .. >> 3. Userspace code that uses interfaces that was not exposed to userspace >> before you change the kernel --> GPL (but don't do it; there's almost >> always a reason why an interface is not exported to userspace) >> >> 4. Userspace code that only uses existing interfaces --> choose >> license yourself (but of course, GPL would be nice...) Err.. there is ZERO difference between situations 3 and 4. Userspace code can be any license one wants, regardless of where or when or how the syscalls are added to the kernel. Cheers - 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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