On Tuesday 08 March 2005 10:50, Timur Tabi wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > In fact, numerous copyright holders of the Linux kernel (myself > > included) have explicitly stated that you are not allowed to do such a > > thing, and that would be very hard to defend against in court. > > I don't agree with that at all. Creating a driver that calls a kernel > API does not associate my driver with the kernel in any sense of > copyright. The two are separate entities. But then, that's just my > opinion, and IANAL, so I guess all we can do is agree to disagree. Looking just at source code that seems to make a lot of sense. However, once compiled they (likely) now include GPLed code from kernel headers. At the very least this would seem to be a grey area. -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
