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Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?Posted Mar 24, 2011 19:07 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line? by vonbrand Parent article: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?
Perhaps the best way to get out of all this mess would be for the kernel folks to agree that They can't. "Kernel folks" in this case means copyright holders of the kernel header files. It isn't feasible to find them all and get a new copyright license from them. Contrary to appearances, neither Linus nor the kernel maintainers have the power to permit any particular copying/deriving of the kernel.
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Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line? Posted Mar 24, 2011 20:00 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link] I didn't mean to imply it was easy, just the best way out. And the authors of the userland headers (at least the part that survives the non-glue removal) can't be that spread out, the gang of the usual suspects who have been hacking the kernel for almost two decades now surely wrote the inmensely overwhelming majority of this.
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