Messages in this thread | | | From | Richard Stallman <> | Subject | Re: Linux iSCSI Initiator, OpenSource (fwd) (Re: Gauntlet Set NOW!) | Date | Sun, 05 Jan 2003 22:25:11 -0500 |
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I suggest that if a function happens to be implemented as an inline in a header then it should be treated (for licensing purposes) as an exported-to-all-modules symbol. So in Linux, that would be LGPL-ish.
The Linux developers can certainly do this, if the copyright holders of the substantial functions in question go along with it. Even if they already went along with linking to their functions from non-free modules, this is still somewhat different.
The question only arises for the specific non-small functions that are to be inlined in headers in this way. (Inlining a very small function from a header is probably not significant for copyright.) Perhaps the copyright holders of these functions are few and easy to ask.
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