From: "Måns Rullgård" <mru@kth.se>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: module-licences / tainting the kernel
Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 11:14:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xzn8j8emn.fsf@kth.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1084003417.3843.9.camel@laptop.fenrus.com>
Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com> writes:
>> Would it be possible to let e.g. LPGL-licenced kernel-modules be loaded
>> legally?
>
> there are 2 angles here:
> 1) there already is "GPL with additional rights" which LGPL is just one
> form of
What about BSD? That's open enough for me.
> and
> 2) if you mix LGPL with GPL (eg kernel), the LGPL license itself says it
> autoconverts to GPL, so you can't even have a LGPL module *loaded*.
> (Not saying that your source can't be LGPL but when you link it into the
> kernel at runtime it turns GPL)
That would only make a difference if you have the intention of
distributing /proc/kcore.
--
Måns Rullgård
mru@kth.se
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-08 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-08 7:57 Axel Weiss
2004-05-08 8:03 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-08 9:14 ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2004-05-08 10:24 ` Axel Weiß
2004-05-08 10:29 ` Michael Buesch
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