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From: richard@nod.at (Richard Weinberger)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: make kernel driver closed
Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2014 14:55:09 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52E3C23D.7020808@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPhGq=bk9GdYMb0oDHY9bUymsMbPT1DnnLCozAkJiga=qVs2QQ@mail.gmail.com>

Am 25.01.2014 14:43, schrieb Alexandru Juncu:
> On 25 January 2014 12:58, Richard Weinberger
> <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:12 AM, phani kumar
>> <yakkaladevi.phani@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Is there any way to make kernel driver closed(not open source)?
>>>
>>> Description: I have driver, I want make it non-open source. how can I do it?
>>
>> No.
> 
> That is not true. Technically speaking, you could do that. Think of
> drivers from vmware or nvidia.

My first answer was "GTFO" but then I replaced it with a plain "No". :)

Vmware and Nvidia drivers are very special. And I'll definitely not explain here
the loopholes they are using to keep their drivers in the gray zone of GPL
compliance.

Thanks,
//richard

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-25 13:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-25  7:12 make kernel driver closed phani kumar
2014-01-25 10:58 ` Richard Weinberger
2014-01-25 13:43   ` Alexandru Juncu
2014-01-25 13:55     ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2014-01-26  4:10     ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-01-27 17:19       ` Jeff Haran
2014-01-27 18:15         ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2014-01-27 18:24           ` Jeff Haran
2014-01-25 11:52 ` Anuz Pratap Singh Tomar

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