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bcmwl package

  1. Bug #1156138
  2. Comment #19

Comment 19 for bug 1156138

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Bernardo Reino (reinob) wrote :

Hi all,

IANAL but I think it should be no problem to link non-GPL with GPL symbols. For some reason kernel's modpost checks for this and aborts.

Modifying the license of a module would certainly be illegal. Modifying modpost.c to remove that check (s/fatal/warn/) would just produce a warning but still allow the linking.

Could anybody give a legal opinion regarding this?