Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 06 May 2003 20:53:14 +0100 |
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> What if this new-fangled other kernel is open source, but BSD license > instead? Would that also anger the kernel developers? (As I suspect > a closed-source binary kernel would, even if one could get away with it).
Then the combined result would be a GPL'd product. You can do that now. Add BSD code to GPL and the result comes out GPL.
> Then, you can (a) rewrite everything, using the knowledge you gained > from reading the various open source drivers, or (b) just use those > drivers, and save a lot of effort.
The GPL says "you can use them if your final new result is GPL", the BSD world says "Hey go do it, just say thanks". Its probably a lot simpler to use the FreeBSD code if you don't want a GPL result.
For myself I'd be willing to discuss relicensing code in some cases but there is little that has a single author.
Alan
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