On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 01:29 -0500, Jan Depner wrote: > That's the consensus among kernel people. Not lawyers. Take it to > court first. It has zero chance in that venue. Can you cite any precedents? The kernel people I am referring to have talked to their lawyers about it and the consensus is that a driver is a derived work of the OS that it is developed for. Look at some driver source some day - it's basically impossible to write a driver without using any kernel APIs - driver model, spinlocks, etc. Lee