[kpatch] kpatch with proprietary module

Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe at redhat.com
Tue Jun 30 14:36:15 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 07:53:26PM +0530, Rahul Kumar wrote:
> Hi Josh,
> 
> Thanks for your reply.
> 
> My concern is around the legal issues only. The patch module that is
> created by kpatch tools shows GPL license when I do a modinfo on it. And
> due to some legacy restrictions I cannot ship the patch while it is having
> a GPL license.
> So I was wondering if there is any workaround to this problem!

Ah, I see.  The patch module generated by kpatch-build includes GPL
code, so there's no way to avoid the GPL license.

--
Josh




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