On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2016-01-14 at 20:24 +0100, Reindl Harald wrote: >> likely i did much more research than you can even imagine long >> before >> that thread started > > I find this challenging to believe. > >> CDDL is incompatible with GPLv2 - period > > Did you read the web site at all? The argument is that it can be used > as a kernel module without constituting a derived work. Many developers > believe this is not a GPL violation. Many believe otherwise. This is a > well-known, open controversy. It's to be expected that different sets > of lawyers will have different opinions on the risk depending on > business requirements and their company's risk profile. > > Michael
As far as I know, that's why the kernel has symbol export feature to indicate which ones are covered by the GPL-ness (GPL_ONLY symbol export). -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
