On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 01:42:45AM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 07.03.19 00:09, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > So your licensing requirements prevent you from having headers in the > > filesystem, but allow module with the headers hidden inside on the > > filesystem? > > Maybe it's just because I've missed most of the thread, but which > license requirements exactly could that be ? > > The kernel still is GPL, isn't it ? So, any device vendor needs to hand > out the exact kernel source he hat built the image from, anyways. > (by the way: we should start a flash mob action of demanding sources > from the pocket-computers-with-3g vendors, but that's another story ;-)) > > So, what kind of license issue could it be, which prevents putting the > files (that you'd have to hand out anyways) directly into filesystem, > while allowing them in a .ko in the same filesystem ? > > I'm confused.
Take a look at this thread: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/28/634 thanks, - Joel
