From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>
Cc: alex@alexfisher.me.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Would I be violating the GPL?
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:46:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1130877969.2777.4.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43679B22.8070905@utah-nac.org>
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 09:43 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> Alan Cox and others have publicly stated that drivers, if complied stand
> alone with NO DEPENDENCIES ON KERNEL HEADERS (i.e. they do not
> incorporate in any way any kernel headers or source code tagged GPL)
can you give a reference to that? I can't imagine Alan saying that
(probably the negative of the opposite).. since even without using any
kernel headers you can be a derived work (when/how/what is up to
lawyers, but I assume you can agree that it is possible to create a
kernel module that is a derived work even without the condition you
describe) and in that case it HAS to be GPL. Alan isn't alone in the
position to make that exception, you'd need permission from all kernel
authors, but I also find it sort of hard to believe he said that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-01 20:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-01 17:49 Alexander Fisher
2005-11-01 16:43 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-01 19:15 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-16 15:26 ` David Schwartz
2005-11-16 16:39 ` Jeffrey V. Merkey
2005-11-01 20:32 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-01 20:46 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-11-01 19:00 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-01 17:44 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-01 19:12 ` Michael Buesch
2005-11-01 20:46 ` Alexander Fisher
2005-11-01 21:06 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-02 9:49 ` Giuliano Pochini
2005-11-02 14:54 ` Alex Lyashkov
2005-11-02 15:29 ` Nix
2005-11-02 15:42 ` Alex Lyashkov
2005-11-02 16:16 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-02 17:26 ` Nix
2005-11-02 15:55 ` Giuliano Pochini
2005-11-10 19:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-11-10 19:12 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-11-17 21:23 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-11-18 15:19 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-11-18 15:25 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-11-18 21:55 ` Petr Vandrovec
2005-11-01 22:04 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-01 19:58 ` Lee Revell
2005-11-01 20:30 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2005-11-01 20:57 ` Alexander Fisher
2005-11-02 16:12 ` Stuart MacDonald
2005-11-03 12:44 ` Alan Cox
2005-11-02 22:21 linux
2005-11-02 22:47 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-11-03 3:50 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-04 0:57 ` Horst von Brand
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