Re: blatant GPL violation of ext2 and reiserfs filesystem drivers

From: Chris Wedgwood
Date: Thu Dec 22 2005 - 22:27:20 EST


On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 04:15:22AM +0100, Diego Calleja wrote:

> So, a GPL application running on top of a BSD-licensed kernel
> (or library) is illegal? I doubt it...

applications don't link with the kernel, modules do

i don't know if that makes modules legal or not, but it's certainly
not clear cut
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