Re: licensing issue

["Joseph A. Knapka" <jknapka@earthlink.net>]

Greg KH wrote:
> 
> 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.

Why is that? I can see why you would need to release the
kernel changes (they're a derived work), but why the
module code?

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