Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

From: Rik van Riel
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 13:40:43 EST


On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Mark Fortescue wrote:

> If you read the Linux Kernel header file "linux/module.h", there is a
> section about Licenses. If "Proprietary" licences are not leagal, then why
> are they supported ?
>
> The implication of providing support for them in the header file is that
> it is leagal to create and supply them.

That is your interpretation. Your lawyer might well have a
different opinion, and judges might have yet other opinions.
If you want to know the answer to your question with a higher
degree of certainty, ask your lawyer.

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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