Re: [PATCH] List LGPL (v2 / v2.1) as GPL compatible inlicense_is_gpl_compatible()

[Alan Cox]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:24:07 +0200
Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> It may be a highly unusual choice to license Linux kernel drivers under
> LGPL, but at least as long as LGPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 is used, this is fully
> GPL compatible and shouldn't taint the kernel.

We need to be careful here that people don't think they can use an LGPL
module with a GPL kernel and then use that to load proprietary bits, but
beyond that obvious interpretation point this seems reasonable.

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