On 8 Jan 2003, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > But, again, it's not unclear for Linux. Linus has clearly stated that > loadable binary modules are OK for Linux. There is no confusion > there.
But Linus doesn't own the copyright of all of the code in Linux. If this is just a personal exemption granted by Linus and isn't based on a legal definition of "derivative work", it wouldn't apply to the whole thing, just to the parts that he himself wrote. I don't think a kernel containing only the parts Linus owns personally would be much use. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
