Re: GPL issues

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On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 23:18 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> Joshua Hudson wrote:
> > On 4/11/06, David Weinehall <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> OK, simplified rules; if you follow them you should generally be OK:
> ..
> >> 3. Userspace code that uses interfaces that was not exposed to userspace
> >> before you change the kernel --> GPL (but don't do it; there's almost
> >> always a reason why an interface is not exported to userspace)
> >>
> >> 4. Userspace code that only uses existing interfaces --> choose
> >> license yourself (but of course, GPL would be nice...)
> 
> Err.. there is ZERO difference between situations 3 and 4.
> Userspace code can be any license one wants, regardless of where
> or when or how the syscalls are added to the kernel.

that is not so clear if the syscalls were added exclusively for this
application by the authors of the application....


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