On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 07:22 -0500, Matt Higgins wrote: > Here is what linus thinks > > http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735 That's for shipping a binary module. Shipping a kernel with a binary module is different in my view - because shipping the kernel means you are shipping GPL software that is modified by the kernel module. If you are just shipping the binary module - and not the kernel, you aren't shipping a GPL product that the module modifies when loaded. That's what nvidia does - they ship a module, the user installs the module. But with linksys - they are shipping a kernel that has its functionality altered by the module - just as if they had compiled it into the kernel itself.
