Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:07:36 +0100 (BST) | From | James Sutherland <> | Subject | Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T |
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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> 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.
That isn't a problem - the GPL doesn't attempt to guarantee users the INFORMATION needed to make sane changes, just that they have the facility to do so. Just as the kernel doesn't come with a copy of the POSIX specs, the RFCs, etc. - some of the standards the kernel implements aren't available publicly, but that doesn't stop the kernel being freely modifiable!
James.
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