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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.
Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>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...)


Changing the status quo involves lots of pain: querying every author if
it's ok to change the license, and dealing with authors that don't want
to change the license, or, rewriting the headers under a new license, etc.

I think it's best to do what we can from the technical perspective.

Jeff



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