Kalle Kivimaa writes: > Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > My recollection is that there is no specific exemption - rather, Linus > > has said that he believes the syscall layer to be the boundary of > > derived works. > > The COPYING starts with this: > > 'NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel > services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use > of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work".' > > Whether you call it an exemption or not is semantics, but it is a > clear statement from the copyright holder what he wants the license to > cover.
That is clear about *a* copyright holder. It is not necessarily true about all of them. There have been times where Linus's interpretation was not shared by all: Linus has said he has no objection to distributing binary firmware blobs in aggregation with the kernel, but others who contribute to the kernel objected to that practice. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
