"This is part two in a three-part series of articles debunking some common myths about the GPL's reach and highlighting the sensible solution that the Linux community has constructed despite these myths. This part applies the body of court cases to the GPL, outlining the framework of the 'gentleman's agreement' struck by commercial and non-commercial Linux developers.
"Obviously, the highest levels of abstraction in the court's current test provide very little copyright protection for Linux kernel modules..."