[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >I'd be more worried if I were the author of such a module. I don't
> >see how you could develop a kernel module for Linux that isn't
> >considered to be "based on" the GPLv2 kernel itself and thus forced to
> >be released as source to anyone who receives the binaries.
>
> If you don't distribute the GPL'ed kernel with the module, then I
> think it would be a stretch for copyright law to extend to your
> code. Patents could do that, copyright cannot.
>
> So as long as the author does not ship the code as part of his/her
> own distribution, there is not much that can be done against it.
Even iff, the FSF dis agree on that the GPL is a "free" license that
does not violate §9 of the OSI rules. So only shipping two products at the
same time does not create a new derived product.
Jörg
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