Curtis Monroe wrote:
> On March 22, 2007 08:31 am, Paulo Marques wrote:
>>[...]
>> And as you say, there have been huge discussions on the subject on LKML,
>> and even worse, they are recurrent. There is one major flame-fest about
>> once a year :)
>
> Is this debate only for loaded modules? (i.e. modules not compiled into the
> kernel but loaded with insmod or modprobe)?
>
> And modules compiled directly into the kernel can't be closed source?
I think you would have a hard time in a court of law trying to explain
that the modification you did to the kernel source itself didn't end up
being a derivative work of the kernel ;)
The GPL is pretty clear about this: if you make a derivative work *and*
you distribute it, you must make the source available.
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