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Re:Leaked Samsung exFat driver relicensed as GPL by agf on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @07:12AM (#6089291)
That is absolutely not the community consensus. Linus and the kernel community as a whole have taken the position that this is specifically allowed by the GPL as using a public interface isn't creating a derivative work.
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Re:Leaked Samsung exFat driver relicensed as GPL by regularfry on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @09:00AM (#6089695)
Not unless something's changed recently: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.0/0670.h...
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Re:Leaked Samsung exFat driver relicensed as GPL by kristofferR on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @07:25AM (#6089322)
Linus Torvalds disagrees with that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Loadable_kernel_m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadable_kernel_module#License...

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Re:Leaked Samsung exFat driver relicensed as GPL by belorn on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @09:07AM (#6089740)
If you use Wikipedia as source, please verify that the section you are referring has a source. Both now has citation needed tags on them.
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Re:Leaked Samsung exFat driver relicensed as GPL by caf on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @08:00AM (#6089445)
It does not seem that there is a community consensus position.
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