From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762662AbYEYMWK (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 08:22:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757356AbYEYMV5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 08:21:57 -0400 Received: from eth7959.sa.adsl.internode.on.net ([150.101.82.22]:39808 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755905AbYEYMV5 (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 May 2008 08:21:57 -0400 Message-ID: <483959DD.8020505@davidnewall.com> Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 21:51:49 +0930 From: David Newall User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: devzero@web.de CC: Shuduo Sang , bosko.radivojevic@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Inserting code from userspace to kernel space References: <290982711@web.de> In-Reply-To: <290982711@web.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org devzero@web.de wrote: > this can be illegal, too. > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifiedJustBinary > I think what he's trying to achieve is an unmodified or modified but fully GPL kernel plus a separate, proprietary binary to be loaded at runtime.