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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Fredrik Markström" <fredrik.markstrom@avalonenterprise.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Developing non-commercial drivers ?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:40:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081118174032.1fd3aa2e@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7a9e70560811180852y9eb2bf6s8682609dcb10fd9f@mail.gmail.com>

> violate GPL or say no to the project. I'd prefer a third option where
> I could tell the customer that we can setup the project in a certain
> way (some "cleanroom" setup ?) to ensure that the results can not be
> considered derived work.
> 
> Is your short answer also the definite answer considering this ?

If you plan to do that kind of engineering you really really need to talk
to lawyers not software developers.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-18 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-18 16:16 Fredrik Markström
2008-11-18 16:29 ` Robert Hancock
2008-11-18 16:52   ` Fredrik Markström
2008-11-18 17:04     ` Robert Hancock
2008-11-18 17:17     ` Xavier Bestel
2008-11-18 17:17     ` Chris Friesen
2008-11-18 18:00       ` Radhakrishnan
2008-11-18 18:13         ` Chris Friesen
2008-11-18 18:33           ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-11-18 17:40     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-11-22 18:16     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2008-11-18 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-18 19:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-11-18 19:29   ` Alan Cox
2008-11-18 20:20     ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-18 21:13       ` Fredrik Markström
2008-11-18 23:28         ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-19 18:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-11-19 22:32   ` Fredrik Markström
2008-11-19 22:47     ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-12-01  0:19 ` Enrico Weigelt

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