From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl>
Subject: Re: 2.6 kernel header licensing.
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:45:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085042700.2784.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200405200056.40444.rob@landley.net>
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> Would anybody on linux-kernel like to venture an opinion about whether the
> license on Mariusz's Mazur's kernel headers package could be changed to LGPL
> instead of GPL?
you cannot do that without the (written) permission of all contributors,
which makes that severly impractical.
However, if those headers are strictly datastructures, your library
compiled against those does not contain code from those headers, eg it's
just interface definitions. Eg as long as you don't use inlines or large
#define's that generate code you're basically ok afaics (but IANAL).
Now if you want to (re)distribute those headers with your package, the
GPL again applies to the files of course.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-20 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 5:56 Rob Landley
2004-05-20 8:45 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2004-05-23 8:22 ` Rob Weir
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