Re: The end of embedded Linux?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Mon Oct 07 2002 - 18:18:34 EST


On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 23:59, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:

> Well, ask a lawyer, but Linux is licensed under the GPL _plus_ some
> extra clauses, for instance it is ok, AFAIK, to ship a binary only module
> that restrains itself to using non EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL exported symbols.

Nope its GPL, barring the rules for user apps - check the COPYING file.
Nvidia would claim their driver is a seperate work, and as such since
its not a derivative work is none of our business

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