From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,3ec90d7920bdc8e8 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!feeder.news-service.com!news.astraweb.com!border2.a.newsrouter.astraweb.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!feeder2.news.saunalahti.fi!feeder1.news.saunalahti.fi!nntp.inet.fi!central1.inet.fi!inet.fi!read3.inet.fi.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: Dirk Heinrichs Subject: Re: Ada and licensing Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: <1190014387.975202.55530@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> <1190028836.075969.233300@o80g2000hse.googlegroups.com> <1190095844.877071@xnews001> User-Agent: KNode/0.10.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8Bit Message-ID: <1190099942.631460@xnews001> Cache-Post-Path: xnews001!unknown@duprn002-10271.europe.nokia.com X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.2 (see http://www.nntpcache.com/) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:19:02 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.243.46.180 X-Complaints-To: abuse@inet.fi X-Trace: read3.inet.fi 1190099942 147.243.46.180 (Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:19:02 EEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:19:02 EEST Organization: Sonera corp Internet services Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:2010 Date: 2007-09-18T07:19:02+00:00 List-Id: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> A warning is in order here: Anon has a really skewed realitionship to >> the GPL, so w/o checking I wouldn't even trust statements like "There >> is a movement to have GPL license module only in Linux". Frictions >> between the kernel license and "closed" modules have existed for a >> long time and the GPL-only philosophy endorsed by Linux Torvalds and >> others has been circumvented by external loaders for binary modules >> etc. I wonder to which event in 2008 anon is alluding (is there really >> a new development?). > > I'm not sure about this either, but Greg K-H is pushing this since a long > time, maybe he just succeeded. A short search revealed that Linus has refused to let it happen: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/475824 So no, there won't be any problem for proprietary kernel modules in 2008. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Capgemini Deutschland | Mail: dirk.heinrichs@capgemini.com Wanheimerstraße 68 | Web: http://www.capgemini.com D-40468 Düsseldorf | ICQ#: 110037733 GPG Public Key C2E467BB | Keyserver: www.keyserver.net