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On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:43 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Alan Cox and others have publicly stated that drivers, if complied stand > alone with NO DEPENDENCIES ON KERNEL HEADERS (i.e. they do not > incorporate in any way any kernel headers or source code tagged GPL) can you give a reference to that? I can't imagine Alan saying that (probably the negative of the opposite).. since even without using any kernel headers you can be a derived work (when/how/what is up to lawyers, but I assume you can agree that it is possible to create a kernel module that is a derived work even without the condition you describe) and in that case it HAS to be GPL. Alan isn't alone in the position to make that exception, you'd need permission from all kernel authors, but I also find it sort of hard to believe he said that. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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