I’d love to hear what people here think of this. I hate proprietary kernel modules, I’m sure most people here do too, so do you think there is legal ground to force proprietary module vendors to release their source code?
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If so, the Linux Foundation would have sued them
Does the Linux Foundation have the resources? I imagine most proprietary blobs are made by big hardware vendors.
There’s also legal support from legal non-profits like the Software Freedom Conservancy which has won cases against large vendors. I think some involving Busybox
Not that it’s impossible that there have been proprietary kernel modules found in violation of the GPL, but only because they used GPL code and didn’t license appropriately
According to Torvalds, kernel modules that are designed around Linux, and therefore has knowledge of its architecture, is covered under GPL. But he also said that he hasn’t sued anyone over it and IMO it’s unlikely he will.