Question about licensing of kmods

[Till Maas]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 07:18:26PM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote:
> 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.

If this is a problem, then it cannot go into any RPMFusion repository,
because packages in RPMFusion still need to be legally distributable,
even if they are in the nonfree repository.

Since the IBM Public License is FSF free according to the Fedora
Licensing Wikipage, the package should go into the free repo.

Regards
Till
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