Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 Jun 2012 09:00:03 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] List LGPL (v2 / v2.1) as GPL compatible in license_is_gpl_compatible() |
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On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:24:07 +0200 Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> wrote:
> It may be a highly unusual choice to license Linux kernel drivers under > LGPL, but at least as long as LGPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 is used, this is fully > GPL compatible and shouldn't taint the kernel.
We need to be careful here that people don't think they can use an LGPL module with a GPL kernel and then use that to load proprietary bits, but beyond that obvious interpretation point this seems reasonable.
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