AFAIK if foo is GPL, you can't link bar to it except if it's GPL to. Doing so would be license breaking. If foo is not GPL, you are tainting your kernel and would be hard to get help with a tainted kernel.
2018-04-09 14:19 GMT-03:00 Martin Galvan <omgalvan.86@xxxxxxxxx>:
2018-04-05 12:02 GMT-03:00 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2018 at 11:49:36AM -0300, Martin Galvan wrote:
>> I want my module to be DKMS-enabled, but since the 'bar' binaries
>> don't use anything Linux-specific I don't want to distribute the
>> sources for it.
>
> Hahaha, good luck, please discuss this with a lawyer as to the
> legalities involved. You are on your own here.
You're right, and I apologize if this practice is frowned upon. I just
assumed it wasn't since the kbuild docs mention ways for having binary
blobs included with kernel modules.
Thanks for the answer.
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