SFC isn't a copyright holder of Linux. They are just giving their opinion. Also, as far as combined work, the OSD is not talking about that, but what the GPL c

SFC isn't a copyright holder of Linux. They are just giving their opinion. Also, as far as combined work, the OSD is not talking about that, but what the GPL calls "mere aggregation". The GPL is quite clear that "mere aggregation" is not under the scope of the GPL, thus OSD consider the GPL to be open source. A module linked to Linux and distributed along with Linux, however, is no longer "mere aggregation", but distributed as a single work.