From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: rk@atr-labs.com
Cc: "Fredrik Markström" <fredrik.markstrom@avalonenterprise.com>,
"Robert Hancock" <hancockr@shaw.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Developing non-commercial drivers ?
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:13:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <492305E7.9050906@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1227031253.1817.20.camel@win2k.atr-labs.com>
Radhakrishnan wrote:
> Am I therefore right in assuming that this is a specific case where the
> open source nature of Linux is being used with great effect but the very
> nature of the licensing denies ANYONE ELSE from being a party to this
> transaction ?
Actually, I think the GPL is still satisfied. There's nothing that says
that changes need to be passed upstream, only downstream.
1) Presumably you won't be distributing the binary drivers to anyone
else, and you gave Organization A the code, so the license is satisfied.
2) Organization A has no other customers, so is not going to be
distributing the binaries to anyone else.
3) The end-user (the Navy) was provided the source code for the GPL'd
software that they purchased.
As far as I can tell, this is all fully GPL-compliant.
Chris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-18 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-18 16:16 Developing non-commercial drivers ? Fredrik Markström
2008-11-18 16:29 ` Robert Hancock
2008-11-18 16:52 ` Fredrik Markström
2008-11-18 17:04 ` Robert Hancock
2008-11-18 17:17 ` Xavier Bestel
2008-11-18 17:17 ` Chris Friesen
2008-11-18 18:00 ` Radhakrishnan
2008-11-18 18:13 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2008-11-18 18:33 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2008-11-18 17:40 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-22 18:16 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2008-11-18 17:32 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-18 19:25 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-11-18 19:29 ` Alan Cox
2008-11-18 20:20 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-18 21:13 ` Fredrik Markström
2008-11-18 23:28 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-19 18:38 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-11-19 22:32 ` Fredrik Markström
2008-11-19 22:47 ` Lennart Sorensen
2008-12-01 0:19 ` Enrico Weigelt
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