RE: [PATCH] sockreg2.4.5-05 inet[6]_create() register/unregister table

[George Bonser]

> What matters is the API under which a binary-only module may interface
> to the kernel.  Linus specifies that only the module exports in his
> tree fall into this API.

Ok, I was not aware of that stipulation. So to be very strict in the
interpretation, if there is a module export that is in the -ac kernels, ACME
could not make a binary module that depends on it until/if it makes it to
Linus' tree. Hmmm, Ok.

> As I stated in another email, the allowance of binary-only kernel
> modules is a special exception to the licensing of the kernel made by
> Linus.  The GPL by itself, does not allow this at all.

Right.  The GPL still allows one to "embrace and extend" it :-)