From: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>
To: alex@alexfisher.me.uk
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@utah-nac.org>,
Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
Subject: Re: Would I be violating the GPL?
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 10:49:16 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20051102104916.pochini@shiny.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5449aac20511011246r6ece9f18rb3b7353dbfc2dedb@mail.gmail.com>
On 01-Nov-2005 Alexander Fisher wrote:
> I've got the source code to the device firmware too.
Maybe they only care on keeping the firmware secret. Try asking
them if you can disclose the driver sources only. The firmware
can be used in binary form.
> So despite the fact the driver has been written in c++, it
> might be possible to write a usable specification.
Linux 2.6 doesn't accept c++, so you have to rewrite it anyway.
You should ask them if you can publish your own driver based
on infos you extract from their driver.
--
Giuliano.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-02 9:49 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
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 [this message]
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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