Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755848Ab2HAVYg (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:24:36 -0400 Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([75.180.132.120]:8263 "EHLO cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755421Ab2HAVYf (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Aug 2012 17:24:35 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=QrvcLCOd c=1 sm=0 a=YPDeGStqRoQnMAluW+pq4Q==:17 a=65KWcu232dMA:10 a=Q37AcrJXvGoA:10 a=05ChyHeVI94A:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=ayC55rCoAAAA:8 a=L6c_SFzkAAAA:8 a=Fc5sQxEOCwUbM_QaLeUA:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 a=_sQgkpRUf9EA:10 a=YPDeGStqRoQnMAluW+pq4Q==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 50.89.247.146 Message-ID: <50199E91.5040308@cfl.rr.com> Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2012 17:24:33 -0400 From: Mark Hounschell Reply-To: dmarkh@cfl.rr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120601 Thunderbird/13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")?? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 994 Lines: 18 What would happen if NVIDIA used this define in their proprietary driver? I ask because I am currently in a situation where I believe I may be about to use a product that may be doing this very thing. We had to sign a license agreement to get the kernel driver source for this product. What we received contained the kernel driver source and user land library stuff. The source code for the kernel driver has MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") defined. The only license info in the package received was NOT the GPL license. On this particular vendors web site they offer unrestricted downloads of binary packages for their product/s that are for specific DIST kernels. But to get the source requires signing a license agreement that is NOT GPL. Thanks -- 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/