Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758258Ab1CaPXJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:23:09 -0400 Received: from na3sys009aog117.obsmtp.com ([74.125.149.242]:56817 "EHLO na3sys009aog117.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753091Ab1CaPXH (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:23:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 18:23:02 +0300 From: Felipe Balbi To: Ramya Desai Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL License Query on a Plain Linux Application Message-ID: <20110331152301.GL5465@legolas.emea.dhcp.ti.com> Reply-To: balbi@ti.com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 752 Lines: 20 hi, On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:49:34PM +0530, Ramya Desai wrote: > I have written an application where it uses plain system calls like > open, read, write etc. and runs in the user space. My question here, > is this application comes under GPL? > > Any ideas / hints would be appreciated. you might want to ask FSF.org for that. But bottomline is that if you're not linking with any GPL code, you don't have to be GPL if you don't want to, although there are many benefits of doing so (IMHO). -- balbi -- 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/