Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Synchronous protocols on Linux | Date | Thu, 03 Dec 1998 11:39:07 +0100 | From | Michael Lausch <> |
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>>>>> "ckl" == Chad K Lewis <clewis@navisite.com> >>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 02 Dec 1998 18:07:48 -0800
ckl> Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
>> SDL drivers for FR (and others) are available - there is info on >> ftp.sdlcomm.com (I forgot the ftp site - the drivers are made by another >> company). However, the driver is: >> - binary-only, made with 2.0.35 (2.0.36?) kernel >> - buggy - there is a memory leak in FR code - eating RAM when the PVC >> is not valid. They said they will eventually fix it. >> >> I'm not sure if distributing binary-only driver is legal - looks like >> it's based on linux:drivers/net/skeleton.c, which is GPLed. >> -- >> Krzysztof Halasa >> Network Administrator of The Palace of Youth in Warsaw
ckl> It's legal as long as they provide a means of getting a machine-readable ckl> copy of the source. If they aren't providing such and they did derive ckl> it from something GPL'd, they are violating their license agreement.
some time ago i fetched the GPL source from sdlcomm's ftp site. i still have it. The driver works now for 1 month in a 2.0.x environment without downtime in Cisco HDLC mode. <ftp://ftp.gams.at/pub/linux/sdl/sdlcomm-n2-cisco-hdlc-0.1.tar.gz>
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