GPL vs BSD Licence

[Will Henny]

On 2004-10-29, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
> It is.  It is the stated policy of the FSF that loadable kernel modules
> are considered part of the GPL work and therefore must be GPL'ed
> themselves.  That is where all this is coming from.

Unless you're talking about the Hurd, the FSF has no say in the matter.

The issue is discussed here: http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/1735