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

From: Kyle Moffett
Date: Mon Mar 28 2005 - 21:11:07 EST


On Mar 28, 2005, at 20:53, David Schwartz wrote:
The GPL explicitly permits you to modify the code as you wish, and this
includes removing any restriction or enforcement type code.

Yeah, sure, one could remove the technological enforcement, but IIRC the
thread also brought up that you _still_ couldn't distribute anything that
_used_ the broken type enforcement, because changing the source code to
include the comment "This is Public Domain!" likewise doesn't make it so.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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