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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: rob@landley.net
Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>,
	"Ihar 'Philips' Filipau" <filia@softhome.net>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:54:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F4569C9.2090404@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200308212032.25334.rob@landley.net>

Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>>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...)


Changing the status quo involves lots of pain:  querying every author if 
it's ok to change the license, and dealing with authors that don't want 
to change the license, or, rewriting the headers under a new license, etc.

I think it's best to do what we can from the technical perspective.

	Jeff




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-08-22  0:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <lWLS.39x.5@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <lWLZ.39x.29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-08-18 18:54       ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-08-18 19:04         ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 12:32           ` Rob Landley
2003-08-19 17:26             ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-19 21:38               ` Will uclibc be supported in 2.6? (was Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.) Rob Landley
2003-08-19 21:47                 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-20  1:42               ` [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined Erik Andersen
2003-08-20 23:48             ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21  0:02               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-22  0:32                 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22  0:50                   ` Chris Friesen
2003-08-22  1:58                     ` Rob Landley
2003-08-22  0:54                   ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-08-18 20:40         ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 12:36 Andries.Brouwer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-08-18 12:19 Andries.Brouwer
2003-08-18 12:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-18 18:08   ` Sam Ravnborg
2003-08-18 18:14     ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 15:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-08-18 15:32   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-08-18 16:13 ` Patrick Mansfield

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