From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:14:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:14:25 -0400 Received: from t2.redhat.com ([199.183.24.243]:41466 "HELO executor.cambridge.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:14:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3BB485C1.4FFAD808@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:14:25 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com Organization: Red Hat, Inc X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10smp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Caujolle-Bert Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Binary only module overview In-Reply-To: <20010924124044.B17377@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <3BB48494.404F15A8@club-internet.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Daniel Caujolle-Bert wrote: > > Hardware drivers > > ---------------- > [...] > > PCTel - winmodem driver > > This one is not really 100% binary only, it use > an modified version of serial.c kernel driver. Of course > it's freely available. That I would call an obvious GPL violation... no discussion about vague "interfaces", if you directly link serial.c (even modified) into a non-GPL .o file that's obvious....