From owner-freebsd-advocacy Fri Jan 12 20: 3:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (bsdconspiracy.net [208.187.122.220]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9954537B401 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:03:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 14HHyK-0000Bp-00; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:07:20 -0700 Message-ID: <3A5FD478.5D197BF5@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:07:20 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Johnson Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any Linux distros which are not Open Source? References: <3A5BA9E2.34D6D857@softweyr.com> <3A5BB045.40F9856@acuson.com> <3A5C0648.603AB543@softweyr.com> <3A5CA771.27DCFB7D@acuson.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David Johnson wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > The Linux kernel has an exception written in to allow for system calls. > > > > Where? In what license? > > It's in the source code tree. From the COPYING file: > > 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". > Also note that the GPL below is copyrighted by the Free Software > Foundation, but the instance of code that it refers to (the Linux > kernel) is copyrighted by me and others who actually wrote it. > > Linus Torvalds Thank you for the clarification. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message