From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Kaz Kylheku" <kkylheku@gmail.com>
Cc: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL question: using large contiguous memory in proprietary driver.
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:05:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081015100521.739277f2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f43f78b0810141623s4282f9eof87014d2dee17810@mail.gmail.com>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-15 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-14 21:56 Kaz Kylheku
2008-10-14 22:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-14 22:10 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-14 23:18 ` Kaz Kylheku
2008-10-14 22:12 ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-14 23:23 ` Kaz Kylheku
2008-10-15 2:21 ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-15 5:23 ` David Newall
2008-10-15 5:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-10-15 9:05 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-10-15 13:21 ` John Stoffel
2008-10-14 23:39 ` Kaz Kylheku
2008-10-15 11:26 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-15 13:54 ` Mark Hounschell
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