Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 09:01:45PM -0700, Paul Jackson wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> > Probably all Linux binary drivers *are* compiled using GPL'd header files,
> > and thus are themselves subject to the GPL.
> 
> I doubt that there is a consensus that simply compiling something with
> a GPL header necessarily and always subjects it to the GPL.  See your lawyer.

For a header as in interface maybe not.  For headers containing significant
code in inline functions the binary drivers is definitly a derived work.

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