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SubjectRe: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers
On 2/16/07, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
>
> (See, among other cases, Lexmark. v. Static
> Controls.) A copyright is not a patent, you can only own something if there
> are multiple equally good ways to do it and you claim *one* of them.

Only in a world where "write a Linux module" is a "functional idea." I
don't think that the legal world in the US is an example of such a
world, though you clearly do.

Dave
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