From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264371AbTLETXN (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:23:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264372AbTLETXN (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:23:13 -0500 Received: from node-d-1fcf.a2000.nl ([62.195.31.207]:6789 "EHLO laptop.fenrus.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264371AbTLETXL (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:23:11 -0500 Subject: Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Kendall Bennett , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200312051909.hB5J9fps019007@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <3FD06172.28193.4801EF18@localhost> <200312051909.hB5J9fps019007@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-qFwbH8NxAuhrPgMMW/pn" Organization: Red Hat, Inc. Message-Id: <1070652154.14996.10.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-7) Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 20:22:34 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-qFwbH8NxAuhrPgMMW/pn Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 20:09, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: \ > Interestingly enough, at least on my Fedora box, 'rpm -qi' reports glibc = as LGPL, > but glibc-kernheaders as GPL, which seems right to me - linking against g= libc gives > the LGPL semantics as we'd want, but forces userspace that's poking in th= e kernel > to be GPL as a derived work.... but those headers do not have inlines etc etc=20 just the bare minimum of structures and defines (neither of which result in code in the binary ) --=-qFwbH8NxAuhrPgMMW/pn 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/0Nr5xULwo51rQBIRAilrAKCkrxAg4ZvYgCq7QX+yY4duvl/DFwCgl7hv 6MXyGO/QD4pDyOqx3h7xgus= =wyfm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-qFwbH8NxAuhrPgMMW/pn--