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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: spinlocks, the GPL, and binary-only modules
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Alan Cox wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 19:55, Andre Hedrick wrote:
>
> >So " -fno-inline " should be enough to squelch the extremists?
>
>
> Its not relevant to the discussion even.


That's $topic AFAICS.  Some armchair lawyers are alleging that 
#include'ing GPL'd kernel code into non-GPL'd binary kernel module makes 
that module a derivative work and thus must be GPL'd itself.

Have we decided that #include'ing GPL'd code does, or does not, taint 
otherwise "license-clean" code that includes the GPL'd code?

The only thing I've seen from Linus is him mentioning that this is a 
"grey area".  Given this message:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=103487469728730&w=2

we fall to copyright law, and wonder aloud if an obviously-non-derived 
work #includes GPL'd code, does it become derived?

	Jeff



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