linux-kernel - Re: GPL only modules

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0612190835500.18007@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:39:19 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Lang <dlang@...italinsight.com>
To:	"D. Hazelton" <dhazelton@...er.net>
cc:	davids@...master.com,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPL only modules

On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, D. Hazelton wrote:

> This doesn't negate any problems with people making Blob drivers, because, as
> you pointed out, under the same laws they aren't a derivative work, which
> means that that clause of the license doesn't apply. Now if the GPL contained
> a clause specifically defining what it considered a derivative work things
> would be different.

incorrect, the GPL (or any other license) cannot define what is a derived work, 
the law does that. they could have a clause in them that said that something 
that is a derived work under the law is not considered a derived work by the 
author (implicitly giving unrestricted permission to that something), but you 
cannot define something that the law doesn't consider a derived work to be one 
in the license.

David Lang

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