From: Phillip Susi <psusi@cfl.rr.com>
To: Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org>
Cc: Anshuman Gholap <anshu.pg@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.
Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 11:29:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <441057D4.6030304@cfl.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200603091509.06173.luke@dashjr.org>
Luke-Jr wrote:
> Or Linux can remain GPL'd, which prohibits binary drivers *legally*, and back
> this by keeping a non-stable API which prohibits binary drivers
> *technically*.
If binary drivers are illegal, then why have ATI and nvidia not been
sued yet?
Interacting with the kernel does not make your software a derived work.
A derived work is if you make your own kernel that is very close to a
straight copy of the Linux kernel. The right to create new works that
interact with others ( and therefore, require some understanding of how
the other work operates ) is specifically protected by the US copyright
act.
This is why it is legal to reverse engineer a binary driver to gain an
understanding of how the hardware operates, publish that information,
and then use that information to create new software to operate that
hardware.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-09 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-08 9:35 [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-08 9:51 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-08 10:03 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-08 10:23 ` Martin Mares
2006-03-08 14:34 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-08 11:11 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-08 13:07 ` Diego Calleja
2006-03-09 15:17 ` Luke-Jr
2006-03-09 16:22 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-09 16:56 ` Michael Concannon
2006-03-09 9:21 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-10 8:03 ` Matthias Andree
2006-03-13 23:06 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-14 0:00 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-15 0:50 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-03-15 9:18 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-08 19:41 ` Martin Michlmayr
2006-03-08 9:57 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-03-08 10:27 ` Al Viro
2006-03-08 10:52 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-08 10:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-08 11:02 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-14 3:02 ` Jon Masters
[not found] ` <20060313223520.113bc6d0.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-03-14 3:35 ` sean
2006-03-08 11:40 ` Matthias Schniedermeyer
2006-03-08 12:00 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-09 15:32 ` Rik van Riel
2006-03-08 14:59 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-08 21:54 ` Hannu Savolainen
2006-03-09 4:41 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 10:02 ` Dave Airlie
2006-03-09 10:42 ` Rudolf Randal
2006-03-09 11:22 ` DervishD
2006-03-09 12:13 ` Andreas Mohr
2006-03-09 18:34 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-03-10 8:19 ` DervishD
2006-03-09 22:04 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 11:41 ` Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker
2006-03-09 22:12 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 15:13 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-09 22:11 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 23:30 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-10 1:04 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 9:26 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-09 15:09 ` Luke-Jr
2006-03-09 16:29 ` Phillip Susi [this message]
2006-03-09 16:49 ` Olivier Galibert
2006-03-09 17:33 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-09 18:25 ` Xavier Bestel
2006-03-09 20:22 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-09 21:32 ` marty fouts
2006-03-11 0:54 ` Eduard Bloch
2006-03-11 1:01 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-11 9:16 ` DervishD
2006-03-11 9:52 ` Eduard Bloch
2006-03-11 11:43 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-11 12:07 ` DervishD
2006-03-12 17:09 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-13 2:19 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 16:16 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-13 21:57 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-14 13:30 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-12 3:57 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-13 5:16 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 5:25 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 8:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-03-13 21:57 ` David Schwartz
[not found] ` <20060314032447.6be9af0a.seanlkml@sympatico.ca>
2006-03-14 8:24 ` sean
2006-03-14 10:46 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-14 21:42 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-03-13 9:24 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-13 17:16 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-13 22:08 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-13 21:57 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 20:15 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-09 21:30 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-09 22:06 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-10 2:57 ` Phillip Susi
2006-03-10 4:25 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-09 22:21 ` David Schwartz
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-03-08 21:28 Tim Tassonis
2006-03-08 21:32 ` Randy.Dunlap
2006-03-09 0:20 ` Jan Knutar
2006-03-13 11:17 ` Helge Hafting
2006-03-13 15:19 ` Anshuman Gholap
2006-03-13 15:53 ` Dave Neuer
2006-03-13 6:02 Matt Reuther
2006-03-13 9:08 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2006-03-13 22:00 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 22:32 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-14 0:02 ` David Schwartz
2006-03-13 19:00 Tim Tassonis
2006-03-13 19:15 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-13 19:25 ` Tim Tassonis
2006-03-13 19:31 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-13 19:46 ` Tim Tassonis
2006-03-13 23:06 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
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