Good for you. Now you can move forward with confidence.
Which driver are you going to port?
BTW, kernel related questions are best dealt with on the Linux kernel
mailing list.
c,
--
Karen Shaeffer
Neuralscape; Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060
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On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 05:45:01AM -0800, Jalaja Devi wrote:
> Hi, all,
> The company for whom i am working for has the written
> permission from the author to goahead with porting the
> code. So, I guess there should not be any prb now!!!
>
> Jalaja
>
> --- Karen Shaeffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:30:54AM -0600, Thomas
> > Dodd wrote:
> > > Ivan Jager wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I think this is the relevant part of the GPL,
> > but you should still read
> > > > the whole license.
> > >
> > > Read Donald Becker's take on this. He wrote many
> > of the NIC
> > > drivers in/for the linux kernel (including the DEC
> > tulip driver)
> > >
> > > http://www.scyld.com/expert/license.html
> >
> > That's an excellent statement. It makes it quite
> > clear and looks like it
> > could stand up in court. I remember when Sun
> > released the porting _kit_ that
> > would automagically port Linux drivers to Solaris.
> > Mr. Becker was quite
> > adamant about it being a flagrant violation of the
> > GPL license.
> >
> > >
> > > Non-GPL drivers for the linux kerenl are allowed
> > > explicitly by Linus.
> >
> > This is true. But it is not what the questioner was
> > intending to do. The
> > questioner specifically stated the intent was to
> > port a Linux device driver
> > to QNX.
> >
> > There is an interesting consequence to Mr. Beckers
> > interpretation. Any
> > driver, under any license, that links in with the
> > Linux kernel becomes a
> > part of the _work_ which is the Linux kernel--and
> > therefore is automagically
> > covered by the GPL. Linus has made the exception for
> > NON-GPL drivers, but
> > that exception does not permit one to port and
> > distribute Linux driver code
> > to NON-GPL OSs. Of course, if you don't distribute
> > the code--you can do
> > whatever you want with it. (You surely concur. I
> > just think it's important
> > to make this distinction explicit in conversations
> > concerning these type
> > issues.)
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