From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262965AbTHVAzV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:55:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262973AbTHVAzV (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:55:21 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:42221 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262965AbTHVAzR (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:55:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3F4569C9.2090404@pobox.com> Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 20:54:33 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021213 Debian/1.2.1-2.bunk X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: rob@landley.net CC: 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> In-Reply-To: <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 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