Re: GPL issues

[Martin Mares]

Hello!

> > 1. If an application is built on top of this modified
> > kernel, should the application be released under GPL?
> 
> No. Applications that merely use the services the kernel provides need
> not be GPL.

However, this doesn't necessarily apply to cases where the kernel
modifications just export internal kernel stuff to userspace. In such
cases, the userspace application is very likely to be a derived work
of the kernel, so GPL applies there as well.

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@xxxxxx>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
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