On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 11:21:03PM +0000, Muhammad Ali wrote: > From: Greg KH > Sent: May 12, 2022 12:03 AM > To: Muhammad Ali <m.ali...@hotmail.com> > Cc: Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org <Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org> > Subject: Re: UAPI syscall exception interpretation > > >On Wed, May 11, 2022 at 09:19:42PM +0000, >Muhammad Ali wrote: > >> Consider a file: ftpclient.c > >> Only include is: #include <sys/socket.h> > >> Then a few hundred lines of personal code. > >> Then compiler/linker take in ftpcliebt.c and >produce a.out (statically or > >> dynamically linked, >consider both cases if it makes a licensing > >> >difference) > >> > >> Does the Linux-syscall-note say that a.out can >ALL be under any license > >> of your choice? > >> > >> Or do you have to note that your binary is under >License X and also > >> includes code which is under >license GPL-2.0-WITH-Linux-syscall-note? > > >For legal issues, please contact a lawyer. You >wouldn't ask a random > >internet mailing list full of programmers questions >about dental care, > >right? :) > > > >Good luck! > > > >greg k-h > > Happy to see you responded Greg, since you have marked this issue as low > priority since 2020, see https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/2/23/105
Other things happened in 2020 that pushed this to the back of the list. > If we could finally get some clarity or examples to illustrate the exception > and license, 2 years later, then that would be very nice, because I am not > the only one who is thinking that the current syscall exception text and > license.rst are not giving a clear interpretation as to when the GPL applies > and on what code it applies. What do I tell the lawyer? “Here’s some > conflicting licensing guide and license text and Greg said, on the mailing > list, that things will be ‘made obvious’ but nothing has changed so just > provide me with what you think”? Shouldn’t I be saying that sentence to the > kernel maintainers, instead? If you have a lawyer that has issues with the current wording and you need help with that, please let me know and I can put them in contact with lawyers who can help them understand the issues involved. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
