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To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: LKM rootkits in 2.6.x 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Mar 2004 14:30:09 CDT."
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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 17:42:03 -0300
From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
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Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de> said:
> On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:16:28 +0100, Christophe Saout said:
> 
> > Ugh... this sounds ugly. This should be forbidden. I mean, what are
> > things like EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL for if drivers are allowed to patch
> > whatever they want?
> 
> If the binary blob knows enough about the innards to be able to do binary
> patching, it's a derived work and should be GPL.

You are more than wellcome to use it as you see fit, and distribute it as
widely as you can ;-)

> Even the NVidia driver isn't *that* evil... :)

:-)
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