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Proprietary loadable kernel modulesProprietary loadable kernel modulesPosted Mar 21, 2011 8:45 UTC (Mon) by FlorianMueller (guest, #32048)In reply to: Proprietary loadable kernel modules by wahern Parent article: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?
A compiler similarly "strips" comments and normalizes code; and in no sense is a piece of code dependent on a comment, or on the amount of white space in a declaration or definition; those things are semantically meaningless in a source file. Google posits, therefore, that all those things with semantic meaning in those header files is not copyrightable. FULL ACK. Google's approach is that they harvest all the fruit from the trees and say only the remainder is copyrightable...
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Proprietary loadable kernel modules Posted Mar 24, 2011 21:17 UTC (Thu) by filipjoelsson (subscriber, #2622) [Link]
If you refer to the ABI when you write "all the fruit", then you are correct. Isolating the ABI is what the header laundering is all about. It's just that THE ABI IS EXPLICITLY NOT COVERED in the COPYING file!
I do not belong to the group who think you are spreading FUD, but that's just because I recognize that you are a troll.
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