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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 a
by agf 13y ago
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.
- kristofferR 13y agoLinus Torvalds disagrees with that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Loadable_kernel_modules_and_firmware https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Loadable_kernel_m... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadable_kernel_module#License_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loadable_kernel_module#License...
- belorn 13y agoIf you use Wikipedia as source, please verify that the section you are referring has a source. Both now has citation needed tags on them.
- caf 13y agoIt does not seem that there is a community consensus position.
- regularfry 13y agoNot unless something's changed recently: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.0/0670.html http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0312.0/0670.h...