From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264367AbTLETON (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:14:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264368AbTLETOM (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:14:12 -0500 Received: from mail.scitechsoft.com ([63.195.13.67]:23424 "EHLO mail.scitechsoft.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264367AbTLETOG (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Dec 2003 14:14:06 -0500 From: "Kendall Bennett" Organization: SciTech Software, Inc. To: Jesse Pollard Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 11:15:11 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? CC: Message-ID: <3FD068BF.29544.481E7373@localhost> References: In-reply-to: <03120508594500.21696@tabby> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesse Pollard wrote: > It is if you are referring to the Kernel. Look at the include > files. They are licened under GPL. > > Look at the include files for applications. They are licenced > under LGPL. Really? Have you looked at the include files for Linux? The standard C include files that nearly every program uses will end up also *including* Linux kernel header files in order to build programs for Linux. Not all programs will end up including those files, but a very large portion will. If you don't believe me, do a grep under /usr/include/sys on your machine for 'linux', and see how many of the header files include stuff from /usr/include/linux. All the files under /usr/include/linux are part of the kernel, so theoretically under the pure GPL, not LGPL. Then again I say 'theoretically' because once again there is nary a kernel header file in sight that actually *has* a GPL license header attached! So who knows what license those files are *really* under. Regards, --- Kendall Bennett Chief Executive Officer SciTech Software, Inc. Phone: (530) 894 8400 http://www.scitechsoft.com ~ SciTech SNAP - The future of device driver technology! ~