Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

From: Richard Knutsson
Date: Thu Feb 15 2007 - 03:17:29 EST


v j wrote:
On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote:
> This is in reference to the following thread:
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63
>
> I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_
> popular in the embedded space. We (an embedded vendor) chose Linux 3
> years back because of its lack of royalty model, robustness and
> availability of infinite number of open-source tools.


I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding... Linux is not royalty
free. Just the royalty is not in the form of cash, but in the form of
having to give your improvements back to the open source world.

Sure. But this is not legally binding.
Please clarify!
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/23/1558219.shtml?tid=117&tid=123

Richard Knutsson

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