From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Nathan Williams" <ngwilliams@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE usage
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:17:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200708070917.39436.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b4e196fa0708062029x681fafe7hc493c774a936cdf3@mail.gmail.com>
On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Nathan Williams wrote:
> My company has been given documentation and the library source under
> the terms of an NDA with the chipset manufacturer. We are permitted
> to compile the library and distribute the resultant binary blob, but
> not release the source to the library.
Are you permitted to use the documentation to produce a free driver
that is not derived from the closed source code? That would put you
legally on the safe side and make a lot of your customers happy.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-07 7:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-06 7:53 MODULE_LICENSE usage Nathan Williams
2007-08-06 8:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-08-06 8:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-06 10:41 ` Remy Bohmer
2007-08-06 12:25 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-08-06 15:22 ` David Schwartz
2007-08-07 3:29 ` Nathan Williams
2007-08-07 7:17 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-08-07 15:17 ` Alan Cox
2007-08-07 18:22 ` David Schwartz
2007-08-07 18:22 ` David Schwartz
2007-08-07 19:20 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-08-07 20:02 ` Alan Cox
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