Re:Passing the Baton
by chamakits on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:31AM
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Ah I see. So as long as they don't distribute the patch together with the GPL base codebase, they are good. Does that sound right?
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Re:Passing the Baton
by peterwwillis on Wednesday April 26, 2017 @10:32AM
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This only applies to LKMs which use non-GPLv2-only symbols. If you change half the kernel, you are creating a derivative work, and it is therefore GPLv2.