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Re: making a non-GPLed module




I would like to thank everybody who responded. Thanks for the
suggestions, the thoughts, the pointers. I was aware of most technical
issues, my main interest was in the legal angle.

At this point I have a follow-up question. Assume for now that a
binary-only module without modification of the kernel itself is OK.
Is it equally (read: to the same degree) OK to modify the kernel to
work with my module, and to release the patch to the kernel under GPL,
keeping the module closed?

Probably a more relevant question: is it OK to modify another, GPLed
module and release the patch under GPL, and keep my own module closed?
This variant of the question might seem simpler, because the boundary
between different modules is easier to determine. On the other hand,
the modules conceivably do not belong to Linus...

This is largely theoretical. I hope I won't need to modufy anything.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | ogoldshmidt@NOSPAM.computer.org 
"If it ain't broken, it has not got enough features yet."

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