Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 21:07:20 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: David Johnson <djohnson@acuson.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: any Linux distros which are not Open Source? Message-ID: <3A5FD478.5D197BF5@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101091240230.48782-100000@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> <3A5BA9E2.34D6D857@softweyr.com> <3A5BB045.40F9856@acuson.com> <3A5C0648.603AB543@softweyr.com> <3A5CA771.27DCFB7D@acuson.com>
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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.
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