From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD82C43381 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:30:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FFE5218E2 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:30:38 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1551367838; bh=FoUF+5g/73J8ystPvFXKVhNp8xUEcXy9gjnsYmtdFnU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=Z/ODlJx9+I8bcfU2ZNOYBILGU17LM+Kl2UamJ3N1AN4Mv/Cng6yiXP99iXmbRCA32 TPb7a7hhTnpUHs17JAz7330tYbIs0yQYW1NMTJMY0zvmMugn8bJbulMMg0QhRKw4Sr 4gFnT6Mgim8lcCzmwcog4sFJ3jghSKz7b8Z5aGlU= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1732987AbfB1Pag (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:30:36 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:33446 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2388199AbfB1Paa (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Feb 2019 10:30:30 -0500 Received: from localhost (5356596B.cm-6-7b.dynamic.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A3F220C01; Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:30:29 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1551367829; bh=FoUF+5g/73J8ystPvFXKVhNp8xUEcXy9gjnsYmtdFnU=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=oXg2BEu9uvyIrGnYY1H2xHSvsBTTC0Bw2O8Xe15B3vtX7uBbYluhjIzV+DkQImNCu l9OShgE8+8QX+elbMFm41ogZTWoWHX0vGLLKtdrulSeAStcD4Y/ZR38/7aVZeTlz8L qYGIFiNscATLsVwmRCma1qDbJCkNoRN02xMalsBo= Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:30:26 +0100 From: Greg KH To: Joel Fernandes Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , ast@kernel.org, atishp04@gmail.com, dancol@google.com, Dan Williams , Guenter Roeck , Jonathan Corbet , karim.yaghmour@opersys.com, Kees Cook , kernel-team@android.com, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org, Manoj Rao , Masahiro Yamada , paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, "Peter Zijlstra (Intel)" , qais.yousef@arm.com, rdunlap@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Shuah Khan , Thomas Gleixner , yhs@fb.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Message-ID: <20190228153026.GG8481@kroah.com> References: <20190227193748.132301-1-joel@joelfernandes.org> <20190228173444.54403795211d80ba540b61cb@kernel.org> <20190228150054.GB156098@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190228150054.GB156098@google.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote: > > Hmm, isn't it easier to add kernel-headers package on Android? > > I have already been down that road. In the Android ecosystem, the Android > teams only provide a "userspace system image" which goes on the system > partition of the flash (and a couple other images are also provided but > system is the main one). The system image cannot contain GPL source code. Note, that last sentance is not true, it can contain whatever license code it wants to, as long as the group doing the distribution abides by the license of the code contained in it. The split of system and other images has nothing to do with license issues, but rather functional requirements. There _might_ be GPL licensed code in the image if it meets a requirement for the proper functionality of the system, you never know :) thanks, greg "not a lawyer but I work with a lot of them all the time" k-h