Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Sun Feb 29 2004 - 16:04:38 EST


Followup to: <200402292130.55743.mmazur@xxxxxxxxx>
By author: Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@xxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Sunday 29 of February 2004 21:19, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Dumb but important question: what is the copyright on these headers?
>
> They are based on original linux headers, so gpl of course.
>

If so, we actually have a bit of an issue w.r.t. the potential
legality of these headers. Technically they're incompatible with LGPL
and BSD-licensed libraries; I think we need some kind of official
declaration that compiling against them is permitted.

-hpa
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