From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265006AbUETIpW (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 04:45:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265031AbUETIpW (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 04:45:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:10957 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265006AbUETIpP (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 May 2004 04:45:15 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6 kernel header licensing. From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com To: Rob Landley Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org, Mariusz Mazur In-Reply-To: <200405200056.40444.rob@landley.net> References: <200405200056.40444.rob@landley.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-rJ1wts67p9uMnFH2KklE" Organization: Red Hat UK Message-Id: <1085042700.2784.4.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 10:45:00 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-rJ1wts67p9uMnFH2KklE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Would anybody on linux-kernel like to venture an opinion about whether th= e=20 > license on Mariusz's Mazur's kernel headers package could be changed to L= GPL=20 > instead of GPL? =20 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).=20 Now if you want to (re)distribute those headers with your package, the GPL again applies to the files of course. --=-rJ1wts67p9uMnFH2KklE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBArHAMxULwo51rQBIRAsgLAJ4gV1saUoxOUD1FVuOn1yEQK3S0NgCfdVkz ekq73xtzXblLT9P8PPmZW/M= =7fVl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-rJ1wts67p9uMnFH2KklE--