On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 03:30:22PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: > On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 02:12:41PM -0700, Daniel Phillips wrote: > > > This has the makings of a nice stable internal kernel api. Why do we want > > to provide this nice stable internal api to proprietary modules? > > because there is IMHO legally nothing we can do about it anyway. Use of > an industry-standard API that is provided in multiple operating system > is one of the clearest idnication of some program _not_ being a > derivative work.
IMHO there is no industry-standard API for in-kernel use of sockets. There is however one for user space. Erik (IANAL, etc) -- +-- Erik Mouw -- www.harddisk-recovery.com -- +31 70 370 12 90 -- | Lab address: Delftechpark 26, 2628 XH, Delft, The Netherlands - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
