From: "Sören Brinkmann" <soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com>
To: "Pallala, Ramakrishna" <ramakrishna.pallala@intel.com>
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to include already compiled object files to kernel
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:57:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eef5a9e1-9a24-4688-b0ba-bae0382bd370@VA3EHSMHS026.ehs.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <D854C92F57B1B347B57E531E78D05EAD574BFA6D@BGSMSX104.gar.corp.intel.com>
On Fri, 2014-04-25 at 04:24PM +0000, Pallala, Ramakrishna wrote:
> HI All,
>
> I have received few kernel library .o (object files) from third party and I am planning to include in our kernel tree. As the library contains some proprietary algorithms the sources are not shared.
>
> How can I include this library .o files to my kernel and if this kernel is release to customers will there be any license issues? Third party says the sources are under GPL.
Doesn't GPL mandate that you would get access to the sources as well?
Soren
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-25 16:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-25 16:24 Pallala, Ramakrishna
2014-04-25 16:54 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2014-04-25 16:57 ` Sören Brinkmann [this message]
2014-04-25 22:01 ` Hohndel, Dirk
2014-04-28 6:35 ` Pallala, Ramakrishna
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