From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "G. C." <gpc01532@hotmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue
Date: 28 Jun 2003 20:22:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1056828155.6289.33.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAY8-F20kf6etlmIWMA00004812@hotmail.com>
On Sad, 2003-06-28 at 00:04, G. C. wrote:
> Dear Sir or Madam,
>
> We are trying to port a third party hardware driver into Linux kernel and
> this third party vendor does not allow us to publish the source code. Is
> there any approach that we can avoid publicizing the third party code while
> porting to Linux? Do we need to write some shim layer code in Linux kernel
> to interface the third party code? How can we do that? Is there any document
> or samples?
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
I can understand why you asked the question here, but you need to ask a
lawyer. The GPL license forbids derivative works being nonfree (eg
binary only). Your question boils down to "what is not a derivative
work", which is a lawyer not a programmer question
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-06-28 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-06-27 23:04 How to Avoid GPL Issue G. C.
2003-06-28 0:03 ` root
2003-06-28 0:15 ` nick
2003-06-28 19:22 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-06-29 4:53 Dan Kegel
2003-07-01 19:36 Heater, Daniel (IndSys, GEFanuc, VMIC)
2003-07-01 19:55 ` Steven Cole
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