Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Stuart Lynne) | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux | Date | 4 Sep 2000 22:58:55 -0700 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10009041346560.19131-100000@master.linux-ide.org>, Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> wrote: >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.
M-Systems distributes something that is perfectly legal for an end user to use. Nothing prevents someone from linking anything they want into their own copy of a kernel they will use themselves.
Unfortunately there was no easy way for anyone who wanted to distribute a product with a DOC to distribute a kernel.
M-Systems is in the process of creating a new driver that works as a module and contains no GPL code.
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