Re: GPL License Query on a Plain Linux Application

[Felipe Balbi]

hi,

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 08:49:34PM +0530, Ramya Desai wrote:
> I have written an application where it uses plain system calls like
> open, read, write etc. and runs in the user space. My question here,
> is this application comes under GPL?
> 
> Any ideas / hints would be appreciated.

you might want to ask FSF.org for that. But bottomline is that if you're
not linking with any GPL code, you don't have to be GPL if you don't
want to, although there are many benefits of doing so (IMHO).

-- 
balbi
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