On 10/28/09, Soh Kam Yung <sohkamyung@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is a follow-up to this mail sent by Kay Sievers > [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.hotplug.devel/14653] which has > this statement: > > "libudev is LGPL, only the daemon and the tools are GPL." > > I've checked through the headers for the source code in the udev/lib > directory for udev-142 source tar file. They are all marked as > licensed under the LGPL. > > However, one file, libudev-device-db-write.c, has a #include "udev.h". > The file udev/udev.h is licensed under the GPL. > > Does this affect Kay's statement that libudev is LGPL? > > Regards, > Kam-Yung That file should not be linked into libudev; it's only needed to implement the udev dameon itself. Only udevd is allowed to write to the database. It might even be an accident; it seems odd that it would really need udev.h. Regards Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
