From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264197AbUEHJOG (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 05:14:06 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263580AbUEHJOG (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 05:14:06 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:15061 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264197AbUEHJOD (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 May 2004 05:14:03 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: module-licences / tainting the kernel Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 11:14:24 +0200 Message-ID: References: <200405080957.57286.aweiss@informatik.hu-berlin.de> <1084003417.3843.9.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 161.80-203-29.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0KQve04aWc+51B/swaCrrgAIwAI= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven 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