It seems that Google is saved from GPL violations...
http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0301.1/0362.html

"In this email from 2003, Richard Stallman says 'I've talked with our
lawyer about one specific issue that you raised: that of using simple
material from header files. Someone recently made the claim that
including a header file always makes a derivative work. That's not the
FSF's view. Our view is that just using structure definitions,
typedefs, enumeration constants, macros with simple bodies, etc., is
NOT enough to make a derivative work. It would take a substantial
amount of code (coming from inline functions or macros with
substantial bodies) to do that.' This should help end the recent FUD
about the Android 'clean headers.'"


Chris...

-- 
"As we open our newspapers or watch our television screens, we seem to
be continually assaulted by the fruits of Mankind's stupidity."
 -Roger Penrose
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