Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:05:21 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: GPL question: using large contiguous memory in proprietary driver. |
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> But thanks to the gracious tolerance of the kernel development > community, such drivers are permitted to exist. That is the question:
Thats an interesting interpretation and not one I'd want to rely upon.
> setting aside GPL chapter and verse, could that tolerance extend > to allow such a driver to get a piece of boot-time memory, and if so, > what mechanism would be tolerated?
You should discuss such matters with your lawyer. What you are trying to ask I think is a question about what constitutes an independant work, and that is a legal not a technical question.
Alan
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