MODULE_LICENSE string for LGPL drivers?
Quoted 7 lines · Alan Cox
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What should I use for the
MODULE_LICENSE()string in a driver that is distributed under the LGPL? "LGPL" isn't listed ininclude/linux/module.has an "untainted" license, so should IWhen LGPL code is linked with GPL code then the result becomes GPL. So once you have the code combined with the kernel it is GPL unless its a seperate work.
I do not want to be flammed, but source file itself is still LGPLed, so stating "GPL" in source is at least misleading to users who will use same source under NT kernel. I think that modutils (if anyone) should know this metamorphose.
And license on the file itself definitely does not change by compilation, as this would for example change glibc licensing to GPL just by anyone linking his GPLed application statically with glibc.
Best regards,
Petr Vandrovec [email protected]