Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules | From | Xavier Bestel <> | Date | 20 Nov 2002 11:17:37 +0100 |
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Le mer 20/11/2002 à 09:12, Mark Mielke a écrit : > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 01:06:39AM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, David McIlwraith wrote: > > > How should it? The compiler (specifically, the C preprocessor) includes > > > the code, thus it is not the AUTHOR violating the GPL. > > If the compiler includes a .h file, it happens because > > the programmer told it to do so, using a #include. > > I was recently re-reading the GPL and I came to the following conclusion: > > The GPL is only an issue if the software is *distributed* with GPL > software. Meaning -- it is not legal to distribute a linux kernel that
Yeah, that's precisely the problem here: the binary-only module is distributed with included spinlock code, which *is* GPL.
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