Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753465AbaDYQYx (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:24:53 -0400 Received: from mga11.intel.com ([192.55.52.93]:11799 "EHLO mga11.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752266AbaDYQYv convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:24:51 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.97,927,1389772800"; d="scan'208";a="519801389" From: "Pallala, Ramakrishna" To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: how to include already compiled object files to kernel Thread-Topic: how to include already compiled object files to kernel Thread-Index: Ac9gojb8jtX0K20pQFGL2vOl15VYgg== Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 16:24:20 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.223.10.10] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org HI All, I have received few kernel library .o (object files) from third party and I am planning to include in our kernel tree. As the library contains some proprietary algorithms the sources are not shared. How can I include this library .o files to my kernel and if this kernel is release to customers will there be any license issues? Third party says the sources are under GPL. Thanks, Ram -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/