On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > In udev-142, libudev-device-db-write.c uses udev_selinux_setfscreatecon() and udev_selinux_resetfscreatecon() in udev_device_update_db(), which is declared in udev.h. Regards, Kam-Yung -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) -- 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
