Re: Creating an embedded terminal server

[Richard Stallman]

    I agree. But the M-systems drivers are NOT MODULES. They are STATICALLY linked
    to the kernel. So this is clearly illegal according to the GPL. I think
    Richard Stallman may be interested to hear that.

That is clearly a violation of the GPL.  However, the FSF can't
do anything to enforce the terms for using Linux, because only
the copyright holders of Linux have legal standing to do that.

My interpretation of the GPL is that it covers dynamically loaded
modules as well as statically-linked code.  However, since it's up to
the copyright holders of Linux to enforce the GPL for Linux, if they
say proprietary dynamic modules are permitted, nobody else can object.