Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jun 2004 15:13:49 -0700 (PDT) | From | <> | Subject | GPL question |
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Hopefully this is not going to start a huge thread war on open source philosophy and such, but the company I work for has some proprietary code built as a 2.4 linux kernel module for a product they sell. They are concerned about releasing the source code. I noticed that what this code does and how it does it seems pretty clean (at least GPL-wise), but it does modify sys_call_table to add a system call which is then used to call the module from userland. Can they avoid releasing this code or is this crossing into a gray area? I used to think I more or less understood the basics of the GPL, but after talking to their lawyers I am totally confused. Thanks.
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