Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:29:19 -0400 (EDT) | From | " Raymond A. Ingles" <> | Subject | Re: Linux Community & UDI is in the news |
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On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, David Lang wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > but if the driver developers decide that they will not allow their work to > be used by the "evil commercial" platforms they will not do this. > > David Lang > > On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > > > Well, the drivers *could* be released under the LGPL (Library GPL) like > > glibc, which allows linking to, and use by, non-GPL software.
Yup, the driver authors are free to put restrictions on their code. I never denied that. I just noted that a license existed which would protect the code from being wantonly copied while also allowing it to be used by non-GPL operating systems. Whether any driver author is likely to use them is an open question.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
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