From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:22:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:22:42 -0500 Received: from itg-gw.cr008.cwt.esat.net ([193.120.242.226]:37127 "EHLO dunlop.admin.ie.alphyra.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 20:22:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 01:29:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Paul Jakma X-X-Sender: paulj@dunlop.admin.ie.alphyra.com To: David Lang cc: Paul Jakma , Rik van Riel , , , Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, David Lang wrote: > well libc uses the kernel headers and basicly all userspace programs > use libc so that makes oracle a derivitive work of the kernel?????? libc neednt neccessarily use the kernel headers, it needs to use only headers that are compatible. Also, though it might use kernel headers, the headers it provides for other programmes to be compiled against it are not kernel headers. further, the kernel's licence explicitely exempts the 'normal system calls', and kernel headers describing these can quite arguably be considered to fall within this exemption. > luckly that's not how things actually work. unfortunately, its not at all clear. > David Lang regards, -- Paul Jakma Sys Admin Alphyra paulj@alphyra.ie Warning: /never/ send email to spam@dishone.st or trap@dishone.st