Hi all, IANAL but I think it should be no problem to link non-GPL with GPL symbols. For some reason kernel's modpost checks for this and aborts.
Modifying the license of a module would certainly be illegal. Modifying modpost.c to remove that check (s/fatal/warn/) would just produce a warning but still allow the linking. Could anybody give a legal opinion regarding this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1156138 Title: bcmwl-kernel-source fails to build on lowlatency kernel [FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module wl.ko uses GPL-only symbol '__rcu_read_unlock'] To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1156138/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
