Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964925AbWEOOCA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 10:02:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964923AbWEOOCA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 10:02:00 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:10723 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964922AbWEOOB7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 10:01:59 -0400 Subject: Re: GPL and NON GPL version modules From: Alan Cox To: "Srinivas G." Cc: linux-kernel-Mailing-list , Fawad Lateef , jjoy@novell.com, "Nutan C." , "Mukund JB." , gauravd.chd@gmail.com, bulb@ucw.cz, greg@kroah.com, Shakthi Kannan In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 15:14:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1147702473.26686.26.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-4.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 799 Lines: 22 On Llu, 2006-05-15 at 15:23 +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: > Dear All, > > I have a small doubt about the GPL and NON GPL version modules. > > If I have a module called module A which uses the GPL code and module B > uses the NON GPL (proprietary) code. If the module A depends on module > B, is it possible to load these modules? That is some of the functions > (which are defined in module B) are called from module A. > > Will it be violating any GPL Rules? Probably. Ask your company lawyer to advise you on the subject of "derivative works". Alan - 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/