Well the kernel modules stuff is a exception, I believe those act more like a LGPL license. See the top of COPYING in the linux kernel source.
Russell Valentine On Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:33:07 +0100 Hanno Foest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday, Dec 11 2002 at 12:10:39 +0100, Torsten Blank wrote: > > > Now, we cannot > > distribute our AVI-reader-plugin, as avifile stands under the GPL, > > which forbid it, even linked as an optional plugin, as i have read > > recently. > > I don't see this. The Linux kernel is GPL, but there's no problem to > distribute closed-source third-party kernel modules (drivers). Have > a look at how NVidia did it. > _______________________________________________ Avifile mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://prak.org/mailman/listinfo/avifile
