From: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
To: Anonymous User <anonymouslinuxuser@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>,
Patrick McFarland <diablod3@gmail.com>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
Subject: Re: GPL Violation?
Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2006 17:52:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44E490CA.8070603@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40d80630608170758h801504boebb92563238d8b06@mail.gmail.com>
Anonymous User wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who has responded to my question so far.
>
> It seems like the two issues that need to be addressed are:
> 1) Are the kernel modules being developed derived works? If they are,
> they must be released along with the entire kernel source.
> 2) If they are not derived works, and shipped in a product, does the
> fact that they are shipped in a product that uses the linux kernel
> require that the new modules be licensed under the GPL?
If you refer to "kernel modules" in the commonly used sense of the term,
i.e. modules that are linked into the kernel's address space and use its
symbols, then at least the FSF's lawyers' interpretation of the GPL is
unmistakable.
--
Stefan Richter
-=====-=-==- =--- =---=
http://arcgraph.de/sr/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-17 15:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-17 5:48 Anonymous User
2006-08-17 6:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 9:38 ` Ben B
2006-08-17 12:02 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2006-08-17 16:11 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 19:21 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2006-08-17 23:26 ` Ian Stirling
[not found] ` <20060817193540.dc819396.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-08-17 23:35 ` Sean
2006-08-18 0:32 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 7:23 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-08-18 12:23 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 9:04 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-17 6:42 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 6:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-17 7:32 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 8:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-17 9:03 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-18 17:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-08-17 12:39 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-17 13:41 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 13:31 ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-17 15:52 ` Theodore Tso
2006-08-18 2:03 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-17 8:32 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-17 9:36 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 11:25 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 11:48 ` Neil Brown
2006-08-17 9:37 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-17 23:45 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 8:28 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-18 12:52 ` Ian Stirling
2006-08-18 8:53 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-18 9:04 ` David Woodhouse
2006-08-18 9:15 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-08-20 22:05 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2006-08-20 22:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-18 9:51 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-18 16:52 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-18 22:42 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-19 10:48 ` David Greaves
2006-08-19 16:29 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-19 17:28 ` David Greaves
2006-08-19 11:30 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-19 15:44 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-19 23:01 ` David Schwartz
2006-08-20 3:20 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-21 7:58 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-21 11:27 ` Stefan Richter
2006-08-21 13:06 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-21 14:59 ` Horst H. von Brand
2006-08-17 9:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-08-17 9:29 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-08-17 14:52 ` Helge Hafting
2006-08-17 14:58 ` Anonymous User
2006-08-17 15:52 ` Stefan Richter [this message]
2006-08-17 16:19 ` Michiel de Boer
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