linux-kernel - Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

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Message-Id: <1171576397.3473.10.camel@gimli.at.home>
Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:53:17 +0100
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc:	Ben Nizette <ben.nizette@...et.net.au>, v j <vj.linux@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:40 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Ben Nizette wrote:
[...]
> > Question to the world here:  Distros make, as a matter of course, a 
> > series of modifications to the Linux Kernel so that their modules or 
> > features work.  What stops VJ making a patchset which effectively 
> > s/EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL/EXPORT_SYMBOL/g 's the kernel source then 
> > distributing that under the GPL?  He then supplies his un-GPL'd modules 

Nothing. But it is pointless since that doesn't un-GPL source code.

[...]
> Rhetorical question: what stops me from taking somebody's copyrighted
> work, stripping the copyrights or falsely claiming to have a license
> to redistribute it, then selling it?

No one.
But that doesn't make the action legal or change the copyright/authors
rights in anyway (at least in the more civilized parts of the world).

	Bernd
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