Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:45:25 +0200 | From | Andreas Steinmetz <> | Subject | Re: Help porting wireless InProComm IPN 2220 driver to 2.6 |
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Daniel J Blueman wrote: > This depends if the module uses any symbols exported from the kernel > with EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), and clearly the module license - 'strings' > should be enough do check this is you don't have a MIPS platform to > hand.
Even then (I didn't check the binary yet), is it really legal to distribute a kernel source tree which contains sources with statements like the following?
/****************************************************************************** Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Inprocomm, Inc.
All rights reserved. Copying, compilation, modification, distribution or any other use whatsoever of this material is strictly prohibited except in accordance with a Software License Agreement with Inprocomm, Inc. ******************************************************************************/
This doesn't look exactly like GPL compatability to me, still it is _within_ the kernel tree.
Note that I don't say they can't distribute a binary only module, it is the fact that it is located _within_ the kernel tree that, ahem, irritates me. I wouldn't say anything if there would be a separate 'source' tree for the proprietary module but: is distributing a kernel source with proprietary binary code embedded really legal? -- Andreas Steinmetz SPAMmers use robotrap@domdv.de - 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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