Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:21:23PM -0500, Walter Landry wrote:
>> The kernel has an exemption.  This has been pointed out more than
>> once.
> 
> Well, Linus claims the kernel has an exemption, though I've never
> heard an explanation of how Linus has any authority to do so ...

My recollection is that there is no specific exemption - rather, Linus
has said that he believes the syscall layer to be the boundary of
derived works.

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