Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2001 15:54:47 -0800 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Module Licensing? |
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 11:47:07PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote: > But if you take that strict interpretation, you have _no_ right to copy > or distribute the object module anyway, except as granted by the license > on the accompanying source code.
Right you are, but this is trivial to circumvent if you are trying to ship a binary driver. The binary doesn't have GPLed code, you are shipping two things which are not combined when they were shipped, the end user combines them when running them. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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