Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262969AbTHVAvU (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:51:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262973AbTHVAvU (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:51:20 -0400 Received: from zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.56]:29860 "EHLO zcars04e.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262969AbTHVAvJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:51:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4568D2.5080705@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:50:26 -0400 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020204 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rob@landley.net Cc: Jeff Garzik , Jamie Lokier , "Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined. References: <20030820234810.GA24970@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <3F440C15.1050301@pobox.com> <200308212032.25334.rob@landley.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1361 Lines: 34 Rob Landley wrote: > On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:02, Jeff Garzik wrote: >>>If userspace applications are ultimately compiled using Linux header >>>files, indirectly included via Glibc or some other libc, and the >>>kernel header files are GPL (version 2 only; not LGPL or any later >>>GPL), isn't distributing those binary applications a gross violation >>>of the GPL in some cases? >>One way or another (direct inclusion, or via glibc-kernheaders pkg) the >>headers today are GPL'd not LGPL'd... so I suppose it remains the realm >>of lawyers... > So I take it one of the goals of cleaned and pressed kernel-ABI headers for > 2.7 would be to have them distributable under LGPL? (Just trying to be > explicit, here...) I thought that this case (including kernel headers) was the whole point of the exemption in the COPYING file. Am I missing something? Chris -- Chris Friesen | MailStop: 043/33/F10 Nortel Networks | work: (613) 765-0557 3500 Carling Avenue | fax: (613) 765-2986 Nepean, ON K2H 8E9 Canada | email: cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/