Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 3 Feb 2008 15:15:30 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only |
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On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:04:24PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote: > Pekka Enberg wrote: >> Why are we discussing this again? The Linux kernel is distributed >> under the GPLv2 and even though there are some legal gray areas >> regarding derived work (think nvidia and ati binary blobs here), the >> license is not friendly towards proprietary drivers at all. > > Why? Because it is a gray area.
No, it really is not a gray area at all, especially when you are writing a new driver for Linux. Go talk to a lawyer if you want the details.
thanks,
greg k-h
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