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0 pointschamakits9y ago0 comments

Ah I see. So as long as they don't distribute the patch together with the GPL base codebase, they are good. Does that sound right?

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peterwwillis9y ago

This only applies to LKMs which use non-GPLv2-only symbols. If you change half the kernel, you are creating a derivative work, and it is therefore GPLv2.

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