Question about licensing of kmods

[Orcan Ogetbil]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I'm reviewing the package openafs-kmod new. The releated review request
> you may find at:
>
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=803
>
> Unfortunately, The webpage
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing
>
> shows, that the IBM Public License is not compatible to
> the GPLv2 license which is the license used for the Linux kernel.
>
> So I want to ask, to which repository - free or non-free - we should
> take this package.
>

As far as I know, GPL has an exception for linking against system
components (i.e. kernel). So free repo should be fine.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Orcan