From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Simple header cleanups
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:00:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1146106830.2885.44.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FYwE4-00047r-00@w-gerrit.beaverton.ibm.com>
On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 19:27 -0700, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> Plus, do we really want Apache or other licensed software directly
> including GPL header files? Oh what a tangled web we weave when we
> suck GPL headers into other applications.
libstdc++ is GPL too. Why's that not a problem? Because it has an
exception explicitly allowing you to use it _without_ becoming covered
by the GPL, in certain circumstances. A bit like this one:
NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel
services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use
of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".
Of course, the libstdc++ exception was written a bit more carefully than
ours, but ours seems to be perfectly sufficient.
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/license.html
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-27 3:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-27 2:13 David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 2:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 2:27 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-04-27 2:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:00 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2006-04-27 4:32 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2006-04-27 2:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:17 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 3:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 3:41 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 7:10 ` Denis Vlasenko
2006-04-27 7:23 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-27 8:49 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-04-27 11:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-04-27 21:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-27 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-27 23:11 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-27 23:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-04-28 0:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-04-28 0:55 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-28 15:32 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-04-28 15:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-28 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-28 16:01 ` Kyle Moffett
2006-04-29 10:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-05-03 2:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-04-30 9:38 ` Peter Chubb
2006-04-30 9:59 ` David Woodhouse
2006-04-30 21:48 ` Peter Chubb
2006-04-27 15:05 ` David Woodhouse
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