Question about licensing of kmods

Jochen Schmitt Jochen at herr-schmitt.de
Tue Nov 3 19:18:26 CET 2009


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Am 03.11.2009 19:07, schrieb Orcan Ogetbil:
> 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.
Yes, but I'm talking about a kernel module which is licensed under the
IBM Public License. This means, that non-GPL code will be called from
GPL-code.

Best Regards:

Jochen Schmitt
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