lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2005]   [Nov]   [1]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    From
    SubjectRe: Would I be violating the GPL?
    Date
    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...

    Rob
    -
    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/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2005-11-01 23:07    [W:4.040 / U:0.440 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site