[H-GEN] Linux Kernel Licensing Question

[Clinton Roy]

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"Raymond Smith" <raymond at humbug.org.au> writes:

> I want to check my memory. I recall that Linus made some exceptions
> to the GPL linking rules in the Linux kernel. IIRC, they were to allow
> people to link against the system call interfaces between kernel land
> and user land. But there may have been others.
I don't recall much beyond what's in the COPYING file:

   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".

and some grumbling about binary modules.

reply to this so I can waist twenty more minutes, please ;)
-- 
Clinton Roy
Elvin Software Engineer - elvin.dstc.edu.au

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