Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750801AbWEOMvt (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 08:51:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751453AbWEOMvt (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 08:51:49 -0400 Received: from smtp10.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.21]:31706 "EHLO smtp10.wanadoo.fr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750801AbWEOMvs (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 08:51:48 -0400 X-ME-UUID: 20060515125148497.0C1B724001BD@mwinf1012.wanadoo.fr Subject: RE: GPL and NON GPL version modules From: Xavier Bestel To: "Nutan C." Cc: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel-Mailing-list , Fawad Lateef , jjoy@novell.com, "Mukund JB." , gauravd.chd@gmail.com, bulb@ucw.cz, greg@kroah.com, Shakthi Kannan , "Srinivas G." In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1147697493.25330.77.camel@capoeira> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 (1.4.5-1) Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:51:33 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 640 Lines: 19 On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 14:12, Nutan C. wrote: > Hi Jan, > > So, if the proprietary code exposes an interface and if the code within > the GPL makes a call to that interface, will the proprietary code become > part of GPL. Please suggest No, but you don't have permission to redistribute the resulting kernel unless the whole code is GPL. In short, you can make it but you can't ship it. Xav - 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/