From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263850AbTJET4J (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 15:56:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263849AbTJET4J (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 15:56:09 -0400 Received: from node-d-1ea6.a2000.nl ([62.195.30.166]:49391 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263850AbTJET4G (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Oct 2003 15:56:06 -0400 Subject: Re: freed_symbols [Re: People, not GPL [was: Re: Driver Model]] From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Maciej Zenczykowski Cc: David Woodhouse , Andre Hedrick , Rob Landley , "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-Fr7SS3gziCdos6HzPOA8" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1065383677.5032.5.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 (1.4.4-7) Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2003 21:54:37 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-Fr7SS3gziCdos6HzPOA8 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 21:32, Maciej Zenczykowski wrote: >=20 > On the other hand any running program on linux dynamically links (via=20 > syscalls) against the kernel... I think everyone agrees that dynamically=20 > linking against the kernel in this manner should be allowed and not a=20 > violation of the GPL of the kernel source... "linking" is a bit tricky here. Traditionally linking involves resolving addresses of symbols from the other part; system calls don't have any of this, they are hard coded, documented and fixed numbers... numbers that also work on BSD and AIX (in the linux personality). --=-Fr7SS3gziCdos6HzPOA8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/gHb9xULwo51rQBIRAlrLAJ9/tIzK4KtY5ptY/X6aCgAfxyc5JQCffrro CWPxTrK0tu02jxnSMdFhUGI= =QwOY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Fr7SS3gziCdos6HzPOA8--