Re: policy on GPL'd drivers?

From: David Leimbach <leimy2k_at_mac.com>
Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 11:27:22 -0500
>Remember that's it's legal to to distribute seperate binaries,
>as long as you comply with the GPL for the GPL'ed binary, but
>it's a violation of clause 6(b) of the GPL to combine them
>into one binary and distribute them, if you are legally
>obligated to not give out the source code for the non-GPL'ed
>portion.  And since the only thing that gives you the right
>to use the code in the first place is the license...

IANAL but I think the GPL has provisions for binaries that contain code that is
not necessarily dependant but merely aggregated into one package.

Still I agree... it must be a module for more than one very good reason :).

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Received on Tue May 27 2003 - 07:27:33 UTC

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