Re: Inserting code from userspace to kernel space

From: Tom Spink
Date: Sun May 25 2008 - 09:14:21 EST


Hi David,

2008/5/25 David Newall <davidn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> devzero@xxxxxx wrote:
>> this can be illegal, too.
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifiedJustBinary
>>
>
> I think what he's trying to achieve is an unmodified or modified but
> fully GPL kernel plus a separate, proprietary binary to be loaded at
> runtime.

I think so to, but I think Shuduo misunderstood what question DevZero
was asking. DevZero was asking for the source-code to the
infrastructure Shuduo used to implement this mechanism, i.e. the
loader and parser/interpreter that lives in the kernel - not the
application code.

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Tom Spink
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