Re: legal question regarding use of glibc headers in /usr/include/linux

From: Clemens Ladisch
Date: Fri Sep 16 2011 - 03:35:54 EST


David Miller wrote:
> ... some linux kernel headers in /usr/include/linux.
> My question now is: Can I include these headers (e.g. #include
> <linux/types.h>) since they seem to be normal glibc headers that seem
> to be intended to be included in user-space programs that are
> proprietary.

Read the clarification that Linus prepended to the COPYING file in the
kernel tree.


Regards,
Clemens
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