linux-kernel - Re: Inserting code from userspace to kernel space

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Date:	Sun, 25 May 2008 14:14:08 +0100
From:	"Tom Spink" <tspink@...il.com>
To:	"David Newall" <davidn@...idnewall.com>
Cc:	devzero@....de, "Shuduo Sang" <sangshuduo@...il.com>,
	bosko.radivojevic@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Inserting code from userspace to kernel space

Hi David,

2008/5/25 David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>:
> devzero@....de wrote:
>> this can be illegal, too.
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifiedJustBinary
>>
>
> I think what he's trying to achieve is an unmodified or modified but
> fully GPL kernel plus a separate, proprietary binary to be loaded at
> runtime.

I think so to, but I think Shuduo misunderstood what question DevZero
was asking.  DevZero was asking for the source-code to the
infrastructure Shuduo used to implement this mechanism, i.e. the
loader and parser/interpreter that lives in the kernel - not the
application code.

-- 
Tom Spink
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