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SubjectRe: searching exported symbols from modules
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:15:42AM +0300, Antti Halonen wrote:
>...
> > A large number of people on this list (including
> > copyright-holders) consider what you are doing blatantly illegal,
> > although nobody has yet gone to court over it.
>
> Um, which part is illegal? Are you saying that I cannot have a non-open
> source kernel module? If I figured correctly, to violate GPL I should
> compile GPL code into my module.
>
> It is a standalone module, not distributed with any custom kernel.
>...

A short discussion is e.g. at [1]. But AFAIK none of this has yet been
brought to court.

Things are even more funny considering that if you distribute your
module in N countries, you can be sued in N different countries based on
N different copyright laws...

> Br,
> Antti

cu
Adrian

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Licensing_terms

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