Question Regarding GPL

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sat Jan 21 06:05:36 UTC 2006


Correcting myself:

> Um... in 1995, he said the kernel module interface is treated as LGPL,
> and thus proprietary modules that use that interface are fine.
> In 2002, he said there's _nothing_ licensing-privileged about the kernel
                                                                    ^^^^^^
> or any other kernel programming interface, except (per the COPYING
> file's specific provision) function calls.

Should have been "module".  Nothing licence-privileged about the
_module_ programming interface.




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