Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:00:55 +0200 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: searching exported symbols from modules |
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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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