Messages in this thread | | | From | "George Bonser" <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table | Date | Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:00:43 -0700 |
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> What matters is the API under which a binary-only module may interface > to the kernel. Linus specifies that only the module exports in his > tree fall into this API.
Ok, I was not aware of that stipulation. So to be very strict in the interpretation, if there is a module export that is in the -ac kernels, ACME could not make a binary module that depends on it until/if it makes it to Linus' tree. Hmmm, Ok.
> As I stated in another email, the allowance of binary-only kernel > modules is a special exception to the licensing of the kernel made by > Linus. The GPL by itself, does not allow this at all.
Right. The GPL still allows one to "embrace and extend" it :-)
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