Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Mar 2006 10:53:15 -0500 | From | Shailabh Nagar <> | Subject | Re: Patch 2/9] Initialization |
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Alan Cox wrote:
>On Mer, 2006-03-15 at 11:24 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > >>>+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it >>>+ * under the terms of version 2.1 of the GNU Lesser General Public License >>>+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation. >>>+ * >>> >>> >>LGPL inside the kernel doesn't make a whole lot of sense.... better make >>it GPL. >> >> > >When you combine an LGPL and GPL work you get a GPL work so yes it would >be clearer to mark it GPL as that is what it became as it was merged, >but perhaps to add a note stating where it can be obtained under other >licenses for other projects. > > > Thanks. The LGPL usage is a mistake in the core code....will change to GPL everywhere except the case below. There's no intent to have the kernel code available under other licenses etc. so thats not a problem.
However, the confusion about what license to use for a header file that will need to be included in a potentially non-GPL user application persists. The header file include/linux/taskstats.h, created in patch 9/9 http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0603.1/1925.html
defines the user-kernel messaging interface and should probably continue to have LGPL, just to be absolutely safe legally. I've not been following the legal twists too carefully so its probably overkill.
--Shailabh
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