From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>, Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T
Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 14:40:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010613144017.E31221@bacchus.dhis.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106121818030.30835-100000@infradead.org> <200106131025.f5DAPMF01441@moisil.badula.org>
In-Reply-To: <200106131025.f5DAPMF01441@moisil.badula.org>; from ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu on Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:25:22AM -0700
On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:25:22AM -0700, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:25:22 -0700
> From: Ion Badulescu <ionut@moisil.cs.columbia.edu>
> To: Riley Williams <rhw@MemAlpha.CX>
> Cc: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
> Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T
>
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:20:58 +0100 (BST), Riley Williams <rhw@memalpha.cx> wrote:
>
> > Shawn, I'd suggest you tell the said sales guy that IF he can get you
> > the FULL specs TOGETHER WITH permission to freely distribute them, AND
>
> Permission to freely distribute the specs isn't necessary, although it
> is nice indeed. All that's needed is permission to GPL the driver sources
> written using knowledge from said specs.
Which would still be a problem. You then have a GPL'ed driver which still
cannot be sanely modified in the way the GPL would like to guarantee.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-13 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-11 17:37 softirq bugs in pre2 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-11 19:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-06-11 19:41 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-06-11 20:55 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-11 22:42 ` Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T Shawn Starr
2001-06-12 16:34 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-12 17:20 ` Riley Williams
2001-06-13 10:25 ` Ion Badulescu
2001-06-13 12:40 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-06-13 17:07 ` James Sutherland
2001-06-14 20:59 ` Riley Williams
2001-06-14 21:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-14 21:14 ` Matthew Jacob
2001-06-14 21:29 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-14 21:52 ` Matthew Dharm
2001-06-14 21:58 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-14 22:03 ` Matthew Jacob
2001-06-15 2:20 ` Shawn Starr
2001-06-12 2:54 ` softirq bugs in pre2 Andrew Morton
2001-06-11 21:58 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] <200106112259.RAA20183@asooo.flowerfire.com>
2001-06-12 0:39 ` Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T Shawn Starr
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