Jimen Ching wrote:
This is not entirely accurate. IIRC Linus Torvalds made the linux
kernel "GPL with one exception", that exception is binary-only modules
are allowed (but generally frowned upon).
Normally the GPL disallows keeping source code closed even if you
dynamically link to it, and cases like closed source linux kernel
modules are normally not allowed with pure GPL licensed stuff.
Define 'dynamically link'. The GPL document uses terms like 'derivative
works', and 'works based on the Program'. Until a court defines what
these phrases mean, all interpretations are open. There's really no point
in theorizing.
--jc
That wasn't my theory. That was from common knowledge from every GPL vs
LGPL discussion. GPL disallows dynamic and static linking of closed
source stuff, while LGPL allows dynamic linking but not static linking.
Warren
