From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] List LGPL (v2 / v2.1) as GPL compatible in license_is_gpl_compatible()
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:00:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120601090003.2f7090c1@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120531222407.GB5256@prithivi.gnumonks.org>
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:24:07 +0200
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> wrote:
> It may be a highly unusual choice to license Linux kernel drivers under
> LGPL, but at least as long as LGPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 is used, this is fully
> GPL compatible and shouldn't taint the kernel.
We need to be careful here that people don't think they can use an LGPL
module with a GPL kernel and then use that to load proprietary bits, but
beyond that obvious interpretation point this seems reasonable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-01 7:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-31 22:24 Harald Welte
2012-06-01 8:00 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2012-07-01 17:18 ` Harald Welte
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