Re: [Vala] .vapi and GPL

[Maciej Piechotka <uzytkownik2 gmail com>]

vasaka gmail com writes:

> .vapi files are licensed under LGPL license, but some of them defines
> bindings to kernel api and hence make use of linux headers on stage of
> compiling generated C code which are GPL. does it mean that those
> files also should be licensed under GPL or that one can reduce GPL to
> LGPL since those vapi files are not derived from linux code?

IANAL but I'd guess that the vapi files are the description of linux
headers - which can be published on any license. But the code which use
them needs to be on GPL. But - as I pointed out - I'm not a specialist
in this area.

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