[Asterisk-Dev] chan_sccp move from lambda-solutions.de to SF.NET

[Kevin Williams]

Look at Nvidia's graphics drivers for Linux.  They are most certainly 
not GPL and are distributed as a Linux kernel module in binary format.  
That module is meant to be linked into the Linux kernel and the Linux 
kernel is GPL.

I went ahead and did a little digging and it seems that even Linus 
thinks it's a major gray area.  Everyone seems to feel that if you wrote 
a kernel module specifically to work with the Linux kernel (as opposed 
to porting a driver originally written for Windows or something), then 
you should be tied to the GPL.  There's no legal precedent though, and 
my quick search didn't find any comments from the GNU people...

So, it seems that community sentiment on the matter is that a module 
written specifically for a GPL'd program should itself be GPL'd.  Which 
means chan_sccp probably should be GPL'd since Asterisk is GPL'd.

-- 
Kevin Williams
  Senior Developer
  Applianz Technologies, Inc.


Klaus-Peter Junghanns wrote:

>Hmmm....
>you mean i could legally sell a non-GPL * module which could then
>legally be used by someone else (without requiring a non-GPL * license)?
>I dont think the GPL would allow this.
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