Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause? | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 05 Dec 2003 14:09:40 -0500 |
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On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:44:02 PST, Kendall Bennett said:
> Right, and by extension of the same argument you cannot use kernel > headers to create non-GPL'ed binaries that run IN USER SPACE! Just > because a program runs in user space does not mean that it is not a > dervived work.
That's a bad idea for technical reasons too - how often do we have to tell people not to use kernel headers from userspace? glibc-kernheaders (and whatever non-RedHat boxes call it) exists for a reason.
Interestingly enough, at least on my Fedora box, 'rpm -qi' reports glibc as LGPL, but glibc-kernheaders as GPL, which seems right to me - linking against glibc gives the LGPL semantics as we'd want, but forces userspace that's poking in the kernel to be GPL as a derived work.... [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |