Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:59:27 -0300 | | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | | Subject | Re: The end of embedded Linux? |
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Em Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 06:20:46PM +0100, simon@baydel.com escreveu: > It is likley that this project will not go to the market with Linux as > the OS. The original intention was to make available all kernel > changes and ship object modules for the specialised hardware. > > Reading the GPL tells me that really it is not correct to ship > modules either, athough I know people do it.
Well, ask a lawyer, but Linux is licensed under the GPL _plus_ some extra clauses, for instance it is ok, AFAIK, to ship a binary only module that restrains itself to using non EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exported symbols.
Think NVidia, vmware, etc.
And yes, IANAL.
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