From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2019 16:30:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190228153026.GG8481@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190228150054.GB156098@google.com>
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 10:00:54AM -0500, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > Hmm, isn't it easier to add kernel-headers package on Android?
>
> I have already been down that road. In the Android ecosystem, the Android
> teams only provide a "userspace system image" which goes on the system
> partition of the flash (and a couple other images are also provided but
> system is the main one). The system image cannot contain GPL source code.
Note, that last sentance is not true, it can contain whatever license
code it wants to, as long as the group doing the distribution abides by
the license of the code contained in it.
The split of system and other images has nothing to do with license
issues, but rather functional requirements. There _might_ be GPL
licensed code in the image if it meets a requirement for the proper
functionality of the system, you never know :)
thanks,
greg "not a lawyer but I work with a lot of them all the time" k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-28 15:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-27 19:37 [PATCH v3 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-02-27 19:37 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] Add selftests for module build using in-kernel headers Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-02-28 2:17 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Masahiro Yamada
2019-02-28 14:43 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-02-28 23:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-01 6:25 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-01 17:19 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-02 2:13 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-02 2:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-04 5:40 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-02-28 8:34 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-02-28 15:00 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-02-28 15:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2019-02-28 15:37 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-02-28 15:45 ` Greg KH
2019-02-28 15:59 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-02-28 16:09 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-01 2:28 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-03-01 3:26 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-01 7:03 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-03-01 17:21 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-01 11:05 ` Qais Yousef
2019-02-28 13:53 ` Qais Yousef
2019-02-28 14:47 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-02-28 16:04 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-02-28 16:22 ` Qais Yousef
2019-02-28 16:48 ` Qais Yousef
2019-02-28 18:36 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-02-28 19:10 ` Joel Fernandes
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