>From: "Rusty Ballinger" <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Keep in mind that the imon code is GPL'd--although I've watched "Ally MacBeal"
>enough times to consider myself well-versed in legal issues, I missed the
>episode where they talked about whether you had to make your kernel available
>under the GPL in order to link with a kernel module containing/derived from
>GPL'd code.
My understanding is that it would force the person who developed the Solaris
module to release it under the GPL, but since it would be a separate piece of
software from the Solaris kernel (aren't loadable modules great?), and since
the
person writing it wouldn't be doing so under the control of Sun Microsystems
Inc. (though I don't actually think that matters), that would be all. No need
to GPL the whole source. Though of course we do actually give fairly "open"
access to our source for Solaris 8... ;O)
I'm discussing porting the kernel module with some colleagues with more
experience of this stuff, but no promises. It would be cool to get it working
though ;O)
Ta,
Mark.
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