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.
> 

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