Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:50:26 -0400 | From | Chris Friesen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined. |
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Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>>If userspace applications are ultimately compiled using Linux header >>>files, indirectly included via Glibc or some other libc, and the >>>kernel header files are GPL (version 2 only; not LGPL or any later >>>GPL), isn't distributing those binary applications a gross violation >>>of the GPL in some cases?
>>One way or another (direct inclusion, or via glibc-kernheaders pkg) the >>headers today are GPL'd not LGPL'd... so I suppose it remains the realm >>of lawyers...
> So I take it one of the goals of cleaned and pressed kernel-ABI headers for > 2.7 would be to have them distributable under LGPL? (Just trying to be > explicit, here...)
I thought that this case (including kernel headers) was the whole point of the exemption in the COPYING file. Am I missing something?
Chris
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