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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
