Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause?

[Andre Hedrick]

So why not do the removal of the inlines to real .c files and quit playing
games with bogus attempts to bleed taint into the inprotectable api?

Clearly it is a game of bait and switch.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-12-05 at 20:09, Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx wrote:
> \
> > 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....
> 
> but those headers do not have inlines etc etc 
> just the bare minimum of structures and defines (neither of which result
> in code in the binary )
> 

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