On Monday 02 June 2008 22:19:07 Romain Beauxis wrote:
> Le Monday 02 June 2008 15:13:17 Yair K., vous avez écrit :
> > > soundcard.h is under GPL too. However in the hg tree it says released
> > > under BSD.
> >
> > It would be nice if it were under BSD. Anyone who really wants a BSD
> > licensed version can get it anyway, and it stops silly questions about what
> > happens if apps use it (e.g.
> > http://4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6671#6671 ).
>
> I guess the problem can come for the kernel modules.
>
> I'm not sure it's allowed to have a BSD licence for a kernel module, but I
> might be wrong.
>
I'm talking only about soundcard.h. Kernel-userland interfaces do not count as
"derived work" per FSF, etc. So a closed program can run a GPL kernel. (Headers
shouldn't count either, but I'm not entirely sure about that).
Yours,
Yair K.
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