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Proprietary loadable kernel modules

Proprietary loadable kernel modules

Posted Mar 21, 2011 12:44 UTC (Mon) by sorpigal (subscriber, #36106)
In reply to: Proprietary loadable kernel modules by FlorianMueller
Parent article: Has Bionic stepped over the GPL line?

You're talking lawyer-magic here, not reality. Only in lawyer-magic-land does it matter whether they use the "raw" headers and then create their stripped version or use the headers_install version and then create their stripped version. Lawyers may think that there's a difference, but there isn't.


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