Re: Simple header cleanups

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 19:27 -0700, Gerrit Huizenga wrote:
> Plus, do we really want Apache or other licensed software directly
> including GPL header files?  Oh what a tangled web we weave when we
> suck GPL headers into other applications. 

libstdc++ is GPL too. Why's that not a problem? Because it has an
exception explicitly allowing you to use it _without_ becoming covered
by the GPL, in certain circumstances. A bit like this one:

   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".

Of course, the libstdc++ exception was written a bit more carefully than
ours, but ours seems to be perfectly sufficient.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/license.html

-- 
dwmw2

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