Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

[Alan]

> Not the license - the implication that binary driver modules are
> an illegal derived worked based on the kernel's copyrighted code.
> Until someone proves this unlikely claim in court 

The lawyers I've discussed this issue with don't find it particularly
"unlikely". However in the case you ship both binaries to someone then
the situation is much much clearer (as you'll note you have to build the
binary to match each kernel and the glue includes pieces of the kernel
definitions).