Re: [PATCH] Re: [PATCH] scsi.h uses "u8" which isn't defined.

[Jeff Garzik]

Rob Landley wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 20:02, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > One way or another (direct inclusion, or via glibc-kernheaders pkg) the
> > headers today are GPL'd not LGPL'd... so I suppose it remains the realm
> > of lawyers...

> So I take it one of the goals of cleaned and pressed kernel-ABI headers for 
> 2.7 would be to have them distributable under LGPL?  (Just trying to be 
> explicit, here...)


Changing the status quo involves lots of pain:  querying every author if 
it's ok to change the license, and dealing with authors that don't want 
to change the license, or, rewriting the headers under a new license, etc.

I think it's best to do what we can from the technical perspective.

	Jeff



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