Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.3.0

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_kth.se)
Date: 02/29/04

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    Date:	Sun, 29 Feb 2004 22:33:19 +0100
    
    

    Mariusz Mazur <mmazur@kernel.pl> writes:

    > 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?)

    Excuse my ignorance, but why can't the headers from the kernel still
    be used. They seem to be working fine here.

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    Måns Rullgård
    mru@kth.se
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