Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause?

[Kendall Bennett]

Jesse Pollard <jesse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It is if you are referring to the Kernel. Look at the include
> files. They are licened under GPL. 
> 
> Look at the include files for applications. They are licenced
> under LGPL. 

Really? Have you looked at the include files for Linux? The standard C 
include files that nearly every program uses will end up also *including* 
Linux kernel header files in order to build programs for Linux. Not all 
programs will end up including those files, but a very large portion 
will.

If you don't believe me, do a grep under /usr/include/sys on your machine 
for 'linux', and see how many of the header files include stuff from 
/usr/include/linux. All the files under /usr/include/linux are part of 
the kernel, so theoretically under the pure GPL, not LGPL.

Then again I say 'theoretically' because once again there is nary a 
kernel header file in sight that actually *has* a GPL license header 
attached! So who knows what license those files are *really* under.

Regards,

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