Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751536AbWEOPuJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 11:50:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751517AbWEOPuI (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 11:50:08 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:62135 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751533AbWEOPuG (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 11:50:06 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 11:49:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: Greg KH cc: "Srinivas G." , linux-kernel-Mailing-list , Fawad Lateef , jjoy@novell.com, "Nutan C." , "Mukund JB." , gauravd.chd@gmail.com, bulb@ucw.cz, Shakthi Kannan , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: GPL and NON GPL version modules In-Reply-To: <20060515150810.GA13905@kroah.com> Message-ID: References: <20060515150810.GA13905@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1139 Lines: 34 On Mon, 15 May 2006, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:23:30PM +0530, Srinivas G. wrote: > > > > Will it be violating any GPL Rules? > > Contact a lawyer, a technical mailing list can not give legal advice. > Sure we can! but you'd be a fool to follow it ;) Actually, his real question was pretty straight forward that you don't even need to be a lawyer to answer. He was wondering if he wrote a priority module for a priority OS and someone else that he didn't know wrote a GPL interface to his module, would he be responsible to release his code under the GPL. So he's not distributing any GPL, but someone else did without his knowledge. This is pretty easy to answer. He's not responsible, but the one who wrote the GPL code and used it with his module is. He was just a bit paranoid that someone else can cause him problems. Issue's solved, he knows he's OK. -- Steve - 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/