From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262151AbUB2VlD (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:41:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262152AbUB2VlD (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:41:03 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:36279 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262151AbUB2Vkr (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Feb 2004 16:40:47 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: mru@kth.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?=) Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0 Date: Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:33:19 +0100 Message-ID: References: <200402291942.45392.mmazur@kernel.pl> <200402292130.55743.mmazur@kernel.pl> <200402292221.41977.mmazur@kernel.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ti211310a080-4136.bb.online.no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tKZP+LUdHn7bQVSckLAnNCcSFlA= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mariusz Mazur writes: > On Sunday 29 of February 2004 22:03, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> If so, we actually have a bit of an issue w.r.t. the potential >> legality of these headers. Technically they're incompatible with LGPL >> and BSD-licensed libraries; I think we need some kind of official >> declaration that compiling against them is permitted. > > /me knows nothing about legalities. So if you could explain exactly why, what > to do about it and how can that help... (and why there wasn't any problem > earlier, when people used headers from linux tarballs?) Excuse my ignorance, but why can't the headers from the kernel still be used. They seem to be working fine here. -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se