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On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 01:26, Ian Stirling wrote: > Well...> The problem is that in many cases AIUI, a large entry barrier to > someone taking CPU A, chip B, sticking it in a box, and selling > it, is that there is no linux driver for chip B.> If you (as someone who does not make chip B) release the GPL'd > driver, then you're making it a fair bit easier for competitors, > who can now simply copy your often not very novel in any way > other than you thought of it first - design, and use that driver. Well, AFAIK that's *exactely* the kind of behavior the GPL was made to avoid. No wonder you should talk to a lawyer if you want to circumvent it. Xav - 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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