Re: BSD Licensed files in Linux kernel.

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 08 2000 - 14:30:06 EST


> I am concerned that one may take this one step further and say making a
> system call is in a way linking with the kernel (after all, linking is
> making a function call) and since the kernel is under GPL, so is my program.

Its a possible interpretation

> Does this make any sense?

read /usr/src/linux/COPYING. Linus thought about it and explicitly clarified
his position

Alan

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