Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Would I be violating the GPL? | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 01 Nov 2005 14:58:00 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 20:00 +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:49, Alexander Fisher wrote: > > Hello. > > > > A supplier of a PCI mezzanine digital IO card has provided a linux 2.4 > > driver as source code. They have provided this code source with a > > license stating I won't redistribute it in anyway. > > My concern is that if I build this code into a module, I won't be able > > to distribute it to customers without violating either the GPL (by not > > distributing the source code), or the proprietary source code license > > as currently imposed by the supplier. > > From what I have read, this concern is only valid if the binary module > > is considered to be a 'derived work' of the kernel. The module source > > directly includes the following kernel headers : > > Take the code and write a specification for the device. > Should be fairly easy. > Someone else will pick up the spec and write a clean GPLed driver.
Seems excessive, why not just use a kernel debugger to capture all PIO traffic to the device and write a driver based on that?
Lee
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