Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. | Date | Fri, 18 Sep 1998 14:51:16 -0700 | From | Stephen Williams <> |
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pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz said: > Even with UDI, SCO can not use Linux drivers: linux drivers _have to_ > be GPL in order to link with kernel. And unless SCO is going GPL, they > can not link with GPL code... (Unless they find way to insert GPL code > as a module - that might be legal.)
And if UDI drivers can be loaded as modules (I would require it, myself) then our GPL kernel will be able to run non-GPL drivers the same way that non-gpl programs under linux legally.
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