On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 19:44, Crispin Cowan wrote: > Note that if we decide that #include of a kernel header file means that > a work is derived, then we cause another problem: most Linux > applications come under the GPL. glibc #includes some kernel header > files, and most Linux applications #include glibc headers, so most > applications are #including kernel header files. If #include is the > basis for declaring a module to be a derived work of the kernel, then > there is some bad news coming for people who like to use Oracle and DB2 > on Linux ... > difference is that glibc only uses the glibc-kernheaders; which on several distros at least are just the data structures and not the inlines. (and the inlines are in #ifdef KERNEL anyway and removed by the preprocessor for userspace)
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