[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/12/2021 6:14 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 11:03:35 AM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj
> wrote:

#It is not a problem to keep user mode stuff under proprietary
#license with a GPL kernel.
#
#But keeping other kernel stuff under proprietary
#license with an otherwise GPL kernel is potentially tricky.
#
#The argument to use is well known:
#   proprietary kernel code---(non kernel specific API)---GPL kernel code
#
#It has been used in the past.

>> But not all GPL people consider it a valid model.
> 
> The Linux kernel developers have said, more than once, that userland
> code that interfaces to the Linux kernel through userland APIs, can
> be published under any copyright licence that the copyright owner
> wishes, whether Free or non-Free.

Amazing what one can see if one actually read what
one is replying to.

Arne