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Message-ID: <20061214021156.GL4587@ftp.linux.org.uk> Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 02:11:56 +0000 From: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk> To: Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: "Michael K. Edwards" <medwards.linux@...il.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@...igh.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:55:00PM +0000, Alan wrote: > > IIRC, Linus has deliberately and explicitly estopped himself from > > claiming that loading a binary-only driver is a GPL violation. Do you > > He only owns a small amount of the code. Furthermore he imported third > party GPL code using the license as sole permission. So he may have dug a > personal hole but many of the rest of us have been repeatedly saying > whenever he said that - that we do not agree. The FSF has always said > binary modules are wrong and there is FSF code imported into the kernel > by Linus on license only grounds. > > Whether it is a good idea is a different question. Wait a bloody minute - the only FSF code in the kernel I know of is from libgcc, which does allow linking to non-GPL code. Is there anything else? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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