Comment by ploxiln

6 years ago

Linus is rather tolerant (or apathetic) about non-GPL modules, but what he doesn't care to do is ensure that there is an appropriate set of non-GPL-marked exports available for external modules. If some other developer happens to mark some export GPL and it happens to be one key export needed by a non-GPL external module, Linus doesn't care, because he doesn't care about external modules.

This has come up many times in the past. Keep in mind that linux has always been GPLv2-only, it is not LGPL or anything like that.

https://lwn.net/Articles/769471/

https://lwn.net/Articles/603131/

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/7/451

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