On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 07:25, Michael A. Peters 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. Isn't that the same claim that SCO has tried to make - that anything developed for and compiled with the Unix kernel is covered by their copyright and controlled by their terms regardless of who wrote it? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
