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Linux kernel has some uapi headers which are usually (transitively) incorporated into your programs by the libc you use. The exception covers this code.
by ilammy 7y ago
Linux kernel has some uapi headers which are usually (transitively) incorporated into your programs by the libc you use. The exception covers this code.
- e12e 7y agoRight, the author might not be aware of: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/license-rules.rst https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... "The Linux Kernel is provided under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only (GPL-2.0), as provided in LICENSES/preferred/GPL-2.0, with an explicit syscall exception described in LICENSES/exceptions/Linux-syscall-note, as described in the COPYING file." In other words, the Linux kernel isn't pure gplv2, but comes with an exception in order to allow linking.