Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

[Stuart Lynne]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andre Hedrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hans,
>
>We talked at LWE '99 about this issue.
>As you can see that this is getting to be a bigger mess as I predicted
>more than a year ago.  As you explained to me that IGEL had verbal terms
>of agreement that the code returned to M-Systems was returned with a GPL
>license in it placed by IGEL.  M-Systems then remove the GPL license and
>converted the code in to an object that violated the rules and spirit of
>GPL.

M-Systems distributes something that is perfectly legal for an end user 
to use. Nothing prevents someone from linking anything they want into their
own copy of a kernel they will use themselves.

Unfortunately there was no easy way for anyone who wanted to distribute
a product with a DOC to distribute a kernel. 

M-Systems is in the process of creating a new driver that works as a module 
and contains no GPL code.

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