Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 13:52:27 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux |
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Hans,
We talked at LWE '99 about this issue. As you can see that this is getting to be a bigger mess as I predicted more than a year ago. As you explained to me that IGEL had verbal terms of agreement that the code returned to M-Systems was returned with a GPL license in it placed by IGEL. M-Systems then remove the GPL license and converted the code in to an object that violated the rules and spirit of GPL.
Since I discussed the with with Tim Ney and RMS at LWE '99, did IGEL followup with legal docs to protect your position.
Cheers,
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > hps@tanstaafl.de said: > > I'm sure that once the FSF is willing to step up, there will be lots > > of supporters and sponsors to finance this. > > Far smaller companies have _already_ got away with not only violating the > Linux kernel's GPL, but blatantly encouraging their customers to do so. > > Why should we believe that anyone's actually going to pursue one as large > as Microsoft? > > See http://www.m-sys.com/files/drivers/doc/DOC_linux_2_2_x.zip for a > binary-only driver which comes with instructions on how to link it into > your kernel - encouraging you to break the GPL. > > Note that it doesn't come as a loadable module (although it's possible to > hack it a bit to do that). The instructions only tell you how to link it > into your kernel - hence violating the GPL if you distribute your product. > > I believe that IGEL's products are shipping with the DiskOnChip driver in > this form. Has anyone sued them yet? > > -- > dwmw2 > >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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