From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263319AbTEMI4Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 04:56:16 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263323AbTEMI4P (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 04:56:15 -0400 Received: from 205-158-62-158.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.158]:62097 "HELO spf1.us.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263319AbTEMI4O (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 04:56:14 -0400 Message-ID: <20030513090832.9158.qmail@linuxmail.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.41 (Entity 5.404) From: "Dean McEwan" To: jamie@shareable.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 09:08:32 +0000 Subject: Re: Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel X-Originating-Ip: 195.195.129.3 X-Originating-Server: ws5-6.us4.outblaze.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Jamie Lokier wrote : >> >> What's the position of kernel developers towards using the GPL'd Linux >> kernel modules - that is, device drivers, network stack, filesystems >> etc. - with a binary-only, closed source kernel that is written >> independently of Linux? First much kudos goes to Jamies V. modem work which sped up my V.34 devel quite a lot. companies who use complex kernel functions are supposed to GPL, it doesn't mean they do, and lets not tread down that path,lest Andre see me, proprietary modules suck everybody knows it, they just keep quiet, dare it desturb them making money. Linus says in the credits file his position, although such a position is supposed to be taken from the majority of users and not a few kernel hackers. Anyway, as im selling a no license version of my software for £13,000 I can hardly complain. The best opinion on their legality comes from RMS, and although im not a zealot, he did write the license, Trawl MARC for lawyers, GNU, and RMS and see if you can find it. Thanks for your help by working on V. Cheers, Deano. -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with e-mail forwarding for only US$5.95/yr Powered by Outblaze