Re: licensing issue

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 09:31:48PM +0530, Raghav P wrote:
> (ii) In case a downloadable module needs to export certain variables to the
> kernel and we have changed the kernel for this effect. Should the module's
> source code be made open source?

If you have to change the kernel to get your module to work, then yes,
you have to release the module code under the GPL.

greg k-h
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