From: <ca_tex-kernel@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: GPL question
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:13:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040628221349.55700.qmail@web11505.mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
Hopefully this is not going to start a huge thread war on open source
philosophy and such, but the company I work for has some proprietary code built
as a 2.4 linux kernel module for a product they sell. They are concerned about
releasing the source code. I noticed that what this code does and how it does
it seems pretty clean (at least GPL-wise), but it does modify sys_call_table to
add a system call which is then used to call the module from userland. Can
they avoid releasing this code or is this crossing into a gray area? I used to
think I more or less understood the basics of the GPL, but after talking to
their lawyers I am totally confused. Thanks.
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Jarrett L. Redd (K9HMV)
next reply other threads:[~2004-06-28 22:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-28 22:13 ca_tex-kernel [this message]
2004-06-29 11:01 ` David Weinehall
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2000-10-27 16:36 GPL Question Jason Wohlgemuth
2000-10-27 16:31 ` David Weis
2000-10-27 17:21 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 17:26 ` Matthew Dharm
2000-10-27 17:16 ` Mark Salisbury
2000-10-27 17:23 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 18:53 ` David Schwartz
2000-10-27 18:56 ` Rik van Riel
2000-10-27 20:53 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-27 19:17 ` James Sutherland
2000-10-27 21:08 ` Brian F. G. Bidulock
2000-10-27 20:52 ` Alan Cox
2000-10-30 12:27 ` Helge Hafting
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