Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:40:17 +0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T |
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On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:25:22AM -0700, Ion Badulescu wrote: > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:25:22 -0700 > From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu> > To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX> > Cc: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, > Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> > Subject: Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:20:58 +0100 (BST), Riley Williams <rhw@memalpha.cx> wrote: > > > Shawn, I'd suggest you tell the said sales guy that IF he can get you > > the FULL specs TOGETHER WITH permission to freely distribute them, AND > > Permission to freely distribute the specs isn't necessary, although it > is nice indeed. All that's needed is permission to GPL the driver sources > written using knowledge from said specs.
Which would still be a problem. You then have a GPL'ed driver which still cannot be sanely modified in the way the GPL would like to guarantee.
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