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From: David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL question: using large contiguous memory in proprietary driver.
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 15:53:08 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48F57E3C.5060708@davidnewall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48F55398.10005@nortel.com>

Chris Friesen wrote:
> If you sit down and write a new driver for linux, is is arguable that
> it is in fact a derivative work of the kernel and is thus subject to
> the GPL. 

This is essentially the argument that SCO used when they sued IBM over
IBM's printing technology.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-15  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-14 21:56 GPL question: using large contiguous memory in proprietary driver Kaz Kylheku
2008-10-14 22:05 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-14 22:10 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-10-14 23:18   ` Kaz Kylheku
2008-10-14 22:12 ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-14 23:23   ` Kaz Kylheku
2008-10-15  2:21     ` Chris Friesen
2008-10-15  5:23       ` David Newall [this message]
2008-10-15  5:30     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-10-15  9:05     ` Alan Cox
2008-10-15 13:21     ` John Stoffel
2008-10-14 23:39   ` Kaz Kylheku
2008-10-15 11:26     ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-15 13:54 ` Mark Hounschell

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