From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264519AbUEDRVb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 13:21:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264528AbUEDRVb (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 13:21:31 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:10501 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264519AbUEDRV3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 May 2004 13:21:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4097D278.9030701@techsource.com> Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 13:27:20 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Lang CC: Giuliano Colla , Geert Uytterhoeven , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Linus Torvalds , hsflinux@lists.mbsi.ca, Rusty Russell , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [hsflinux] [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license References: <408DC0E0.7090500@gmx.net> <40914C35.1030802@copeca.dsnet.it> <409256A4.5080607@copeca.dsnet.it> <409276D6.9070500@gmx.net> <4092A88D.70007@copeca.dsnet.it> <40957585.5060105@copeca.dsnet.it> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Lang wrote: > except that this brings up the issue of if the GPL will allow this > linking to take place at all. > > my understanding of what RMS and the FSF have said is that they don't > believe that this is allowed at all. > It's allowed if the code under GPL was written by Marc and he licenses it as such, such as "it's my license, unless you copy it, then it's GPL."