SFC isn&#x27;t a copyright holder of Linux. They are just giving their opinion.<p>Also, as far as combined work, the OSD is not talking about that, but what the GPL calls &quot;mere aggregation&quot;. The GPL is quite clear that &quot;mere aggregation&quot; is not under the scope of the GPL, thus OSD consider the GPL to be open source. A module linked to Linux and distributed along with Linux, however, is no longer &quot;mere aggregation&quot;, but distributed as a single work.