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Does that mean that any kernel module is automatically not a derived work?

April 26, 2017automatically derived Kernel mean module

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Does that mean that any kernel module is automatically not a derived work?

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Hell no! It has nothing to do with modules per se, except that non-modules clearly are derived works (if they are so central to the kernel that you can’t load them as a module, they are clearly derived works just by virtue of being very intimate — and because the GPL expressly mentions linking).