LXer: This week at LWN: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?

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LXer: This week at LWN: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?

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03-31-2011, 11:41 AM	#1
LXer LXer NewsBot Registered: Dec 2005 Posts: 128,340 Rep:	LXer: This week at LWN: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line? Published at LXer: Way back in the early days of Linux, shortly after Linus Torvalds switched the kernel from his own "non-commercial" license to the GPL, he also added an important clarification to the kernel's license. In the COPYING file at the top of the kernel tree since mid-1993, there has been a clear statement that Torvalds, at least, does not consider user-space programs to be derived from the kernel, and thus are not subject to the kernel's license.. Read More...

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