Question regarding modules/pluggins license?

Ian Lance Taylor ian at airs.com
Mon Mar 1 16:45:36 UTC 2004


Alexander Terekhov <TEREKHOV at de.ibm.com> writes:

> http://www.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/licensing.txt
> http://google.com/groups?threadm=YPep.5Y5.21%40gated-at.bofh.it
> (Read the entire thread -- this is real fun ;-) )

I am already quite familiar with this discussion.

In your initial post, you mentioned glibc.  glibc is not a kernel
loadable module.  It only uses the Linux kernel syscall interface.
The discussions you mention above do not apply to glibc.

In fact, I believe that those discussions support my initial point,
which is that there is no clear legal position for software which uses
an API which is only defined by a single GPL implementation.

Ian
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