[OT] The GPL and possible violations

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 07:25, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> > Here is what linus thinks 
> > 
> > http://kerneltrap.org/node/1735
> 
> That's for shipping a binary module.
> Shipping a kernel with a binary module is different in my view - because
> shipping the kernel means you are shipping GPL software that is modified
> by the kernel module.
> 
> If you are just shipping the binary module - and not the kernel, you
> aren't shipping a GPL product that the module modifies when loaded.
> That's what nvidia does - they ship a module, the user installs the
> module. But with linksys - they are shipping a kernel that has its
> functionality altered by the module - just as if they had compiled it
> into the kernel itself.

Isn't that the same claim that SCO has tried to make - that
anything developed for and compiled with the Unix kernel
is covered by their copyright and controlled by their
terms regardless of who wrote it?

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  Les Mikesell
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