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2011-01-26 , 23:31
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Originally Posted by woody14619 View Post
You'll note what we're talking about here is not an app.
You were the one claiming that all OVI Store apps would be GPL, not me.

It's a module, that plugs into the kernel. Several such modules in the N900 kernel are closed source. Making a closed source module is quite legit. So, thanks for making my point for me.
Incorrect. Even NVIDIA doesn't produce a closed source kernel module, instead the module itself is perfectly open GPL-code. It simply loads a binary firmware blob once it's loaded and initialized into memory. Since that blob doesn't link to the kernel it doesn't have to be GPL.

The author of these mods however directly links to the kernel and thus it makes them GPL.

Go ahead and study NVIDIA kernel modules for a good, professional and proprietary example.
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