Messages in this thread | | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: Would I be violating the GPL? | Date | Tue, 1 Nov 2005 16:04:53 -0600 |
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On Tuesday 01 November 2005 11:44, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > No, don't take the code without the suppliers permission. It contains > trade secrets and you can get into a ot of trouble if there's an > agreement between the two of you. Contact the supplier. Tell them to > abstract away thre kernel headers, or rewrite to remove them, or grant > you persmission to open source the driver. The UK is the land of > frivilous lawsuits (I should know a lot about this :-) ), so don;t > expose yourself and breach any agreements. > > Jeff
Translation to what a sane person might have said:
Make sure you aren't bound by any non-disclosure agreements before posting a driver specification for public viewing. Writing up such a spec from the source code (if the supplier didn't give you one) is probably a darn good idea either way, for your own internal maintenance purposes. If you have the spare cycles...
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