Re: Eclipse 3.0 Running ILLEGALY on Kaffe
Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
> 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.
The COPYING starts with this:
'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".'
Whether you call it an exemption or not is semantics, but it is a
clear statement from the copyright holder what he wants the license to
cover.
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