From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263868AbUEHK3v (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 06:29:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263692AbUEHK3v (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 06:29:51 -0400 Received: from mout0.freenet.de ([194.97.50.131]:3534 "EHLO mout0.freenet.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263868AbUEHK3k convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 06:29:40 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Axel =?utf-8?q?Wei=C3=9F?= Subject: Re: module-licences / tainting the kernel Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 12:29:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.2 References: <200405080957.57286.aweiss@informatik.hu-berlin.de> <1084003417.3843.9.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> <200405081224.49890.aweiss@informatik.hu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <200405081224.49890.aweiss@informatik.hu-berlin.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <200405081229.15539.mbuesch@freenet.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 08 May 2004 12:24, you wrote: > What does this actually mean (I'm no lawyer and somehow confused about it)? As > I understand, GPL sais: 'every piece of code that relies on me, must be > GPL'ed and therefore be available as source code', while LGPL sais: 'you may > develop proprietary software that relies on me, but if you change me, your > changes must be available as source code'. > > I want to permit proprietary extensions *in user-space* for my > open-source-project, that contains some device-drivers for DSP-cards, and > partly relies on them. Does your second statement mean that as long as > there's only source-code, it may be LGPL (and extendable), but if you *use* > it (e.g. load the kernel-modules), everything that relies on the modules must > be GPL? You may have a look at Linus' comment in the COPYING file of the kernel tree. > Axel - -- Regards Michael Buesch [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAnLZ6FGK1OIvVOP4RAjvDAKCiFVDEHWOMtR5i/DwTt8iguA2+BwCfWiOa B1shQRhLGvSWv1/fgNfQOGo= =6og7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----