Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0

From: Mariusz Mazur (mmazur_at_kernel.pl)
Date: 02/29/04

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    On Sunday 29 of February 2004 22:03, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
    > 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.

    /me knows nothing about legalities. So if you could explain exactly why, what
    to do about it and how can that help... (and why there wasn't any problem
    earlier, when people used headers from linux tarballs?)

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