Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 4 Apr 2005 08:15:13 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!. |
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On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:01:45PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote: > Mark wrote: > > Probably all Linux binary drivers *are* compiled using GPL'd header files, > > and thus are themselves subject to the GPL. > > I doubt that there is a consensus that simply compiling something with > a GPL header necessarily and always subjects it to the GPL. See your lawyer.
For a header as in interface maybe not. For headers containing significant code in inline functions the binary drivers is definitly a derived work.
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