http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106547120229016&w=2
A company makes a new device that could run under Linux. This device uses some standard gate-arrays. Because of this, some gate-array bits need to be loaded upon startup.
http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/tainting.html
Modutils complains that PWCX is 'tainting' the kernel. What's up?
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.2/0369.html
....agree with that view or not is completely irrelevant, the person who owns the copyright decides how their work can be used....
... System calls are not affected and cannot be, that is yet another red herring. Anybody who thinks otherwise does not understand the GPL.
http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.2/0646.html