Re: Would I be violating the GPL?
From: Michael Buesch (mbuesch_at_freenet.de)
Date: 11/01/05
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To: alex@alexfisher.me.uk Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 20:00:20 +0100
On Tuesday 01 November 2005 18:49, Alexander Fisher wrote:
> Hello.
>
> A supplier of a PCI mezzanine digital IO card has provided a linux 2.4
> driver as source code. They have provided this code source with a
> license stating I won't redistribute it in anyway.
> My concern is that if I build this code into a module, I won't be able
> to distribute it to customers without violating either the GPL (by not
> distributing the source code), or the proprietary source code license
> as currently imposed by the supplier.
> From what I have read, this concern is only valid if the binary module
> is considered to be a 'derived work' of the kernel. The module source
> directly includes the following kernel headers :
Take the code and write a specification for the device.
Should be fairly easy.
Someone else will pick up the spec and write a clean GPLed driver.
Like these, without the reverse engineering part:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_room_design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_wall#Computer_science
-- Greetings Michael.
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