Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:54:33 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | 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: >>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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