Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Suggestion for handling of boot-time driver options | | Date | Mon, 15 Dec 1997 06:19:05 +0100 | | From | Dominik Kubla <> |
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: > They *could* be written entirely from scratch, and be quite : > independend of actual kernel. (It would be pretty hard to write kernel : > module that way, as they would have to re-implement all includes, but : > possible). Where do they violate gpl, then? : : By being linked with it
Sigh! I have heard that often enough... Anyhow i would prefer a binary only driver to being forced to shift a project to WinNT or some other M$ crap any time of day.
Sometimes i wonder if it was a wise decision to put Linux under GPL and not using something like a modified BSD copyright...
Just in case you don't know: some companies don't port their commercial software to linux because the license of the C/C++ library would force them to provide the customer with the source code. No joke!
Dominik Kubla
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