Je voulais poster un commentaire sur le site mais cela ne marche plus alors je poste ici.
"Linking GPL code to other code is only distributable if the result is GPL (or GPL compatible). "
No it's not. You missunderstood the GPL.
There is no concept of "linking" in the GPL. The word or a synonym could not be read in it.
The concept is about "derivative work".
It was usualy admited that kernel driver are derivative work of the kernel and that linking create derivative work.
Proprietary module in kernel have a long story. The first non GPL module was the code used to read a filesystem which comme from an other project (to read the minix filesystem with code from minix, if i remember correctly ). The code was not written for Linux so it's licence could be different.
There is the same tolerance for the video drivers that are much more than a hardware abstraction layer. Most of them came from developements for windows, not for linux. So you can't say it's a derivative work of the Linux kernel.
So i don't see any licence problem to redistribut Linux with Nvidia kernel (Nvidia permit the redistribution of the binary module under linux)
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"Linking GPL code to other code is only distributable if the result is GPL (or GPL compatible). "
No it's not. You missunderstood the GPL.
There is no concept of "linking" in the GPL. The word or a synonym could not be read in it.
The concept is about "derivative work".
It was usualy admited that kernel driver are derivative work of the kernel and that linking create derivative work.
Proprietary module in kernel have a long story. The first non GPL module was the code used to read a filesystem which comme from an other project (to read the minix filesystem with code from minix, if i remember correctly ). The code was not written for Linux so it's licence could be different.
There is the same tolerance for the video drivers that are much more than a hardware abstraction layer. Most of them came from developements for windows, not for linux. So you can't say it's a derivative work of the Linux kernel.
So i don't see any licence problem to redistribut Linux with Nvidia kernel (Nvidia permit the redistribution of the binary module under linux)
"La première sécurité est la liberté"