From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161311AbXCBAMy (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:12:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161304AbXCBAMx (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:12:53 -0500 Received: from cacti.profiwh.com ([85.93.165.66]:47347 "EHLO cacti.profiwh.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161311AbXCBAMw (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:12:52 -0500 Message-ID: <45E76C16.1030706@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 01:13:10 +0100 From: Jiri Slaby User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b2 (X11/20070116) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: License violation? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. I have a GPL driver (written by me) with workarounds, since I hadn't know-how, when I wrote it. Now I've got 2.4 proprietary driver from the vendor. Is use of the 2.4 driver know-how OK? (And could be such driver merged?) These are lines from the proprietary driver: IMPORTANT SAFETY & LEGAL INFORMATION: This source file is provided as part of the SensAble Technologies PDD/GHOST Software Development Toolkit in order to facilitate the use of PCI-based PHANToM haptic interface devices across various Linux kernel revisions. It is meant to be recompiled without modification. It should NOT be modified in any way. Any modification of this source code will void any and all software and/or hardware warranties and maintenance agreements with SensAble Technologies or its assignees. Furthermore, modification of this source file may result in the damage or failure of the user's hardware. SensAble Technologies and its assignees assume no responsibility for any damage or injury resulting from the modification of this file. It's obvious, that if somebody was using the GPL driver, he'll lost warranty et al. (But this is not the question.) thanks, -- http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint: B674 9967 0407 CE62 ACC8 22A0 32CC 55C3 39D4 7A7E Hnus is an alias for /dev/null