Messages in this thread | | | From | "Hua Zhong" <> | Subject | RE: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? | Date | Thu, 4 Dec 2003 21:26:44 -0800 |
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> Here's the part where people's eyes glaze over: > > % cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test10-mm1 > % find include -name '*.h' | xargs egrep 'static.*inline' | wc -l > 6288 > > That's 6,288 chances for you to #include GPL code and end up > with executable derived from it in *your* .o file, not the kernel's.
What's so fundamentally different about inline functions, or, IOW, a finer format of macros?
It doesn't matter if the API is inline or not. What matters is if using this API makes your program a derivative work. From this perspective, it's just an interface, no matter how it's implemented.
Let's be frank: how many people really try to read the header file when they use these APIs? They don't care if they are inlined or not. To them they are just _APIs_.
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