On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:30:22PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:12:41PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>
> > This has the makings of a nice stable internal kernel api. Why do we want
> > to provide this nice stable internal api to proprietary modules?
>
> because there is IMHO legally nothing we can do about it anyway. Use of
> an industry-standard API that is provided in multiple operating system
> is one of the clearest idnication of some program _not_ being a
> derivative work.
IMHO there is no industry-standard API for in-kernel use of sockets.
There is however one for user space.
Erik
(IANAL, etc)
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