From: Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr>
To: "Nutan C." <nutanc@esntechnologies.co.in>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
linux-kernel-Mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Fawad Lateef <fawadlateef@gmail.com>,
jjoy@novell.com, "Mukund JB." <mukundjb@esntechnologies.co.in>,
gauravd.chd@gmail.com, bulb@ucw.cz, greg@kroah.com,
Shakthi Kannan <cyborg4k@yahoo.com>,
"Srinivas G." <srinivasg@esntechnologies.co.in>
Subject: RE: GPL and NON GPL version modules
Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 14:51:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147697493.25330.77.camel@capoeira> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AF63F67E8D577C4390B25443CBE3B9F7092931@esnmail.esntechnologies.co.in>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-15 12:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-15 12:12 GPL and NON GPL version modules Nutan C.
2006-05-15 12:51 ` Xavier Bestel [this message]
2006-05-15 12:52 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-05-15 13:06 ` Steven Rostedt
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-15 14:05 Nutan C.
2006-05-15 14:00 Nutan C.
2006-05-15 14:13 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-15 15:12 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-05-15 13:34 Nutan C.
2006-05-15 13:41 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-15 13:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-15 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-16 3:42 ` David Schwartz
2006-05-16 8:52 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-05-16 19:54 ` David Schwartz
2006-05-15 9:53 Srinivas G.
2006-05-15 12:54 ` Manu Abraham
2006-05-15 14:14 ` Alan Cox
2006-05-15 15:08 ` Greg KH
2006-05-15 15:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2006-05-15 15:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-15 9:31 Srinivas G.
2006-05-15 12:08 ` Jan Engelhardt
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