Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261475AbVC1MFR (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:05:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261559AbVC1MFQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:05:16 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.58]:10447 "EHLO ms-smtp-04.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261475AbVC1MFJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:05:09 -0500 Subject: Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!. From: Steven Rostedt To: Horst von Brand Cc: Kyle Moffett , Aaron Gyes , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Arjan van de Ven , LKML , Adrian Bunk In-Reply-To: <200503280154.j2S1s9e6009981@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> References: <200503280154.j2S1s9e6009981@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Kihon Technologies Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 07:04:01 -0500 Message-Id: <1112011441.27381.31.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1425 Lines: 32 On Sun, 2005-03-27 at 21:54 -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > Wrong. You are free to do whatever you like in the privacy of your home, > but not distribute the result. So you could very well distribute both > pieces, one under GPL, the other not, and leave the linking to the end > user. > > Sure, /creating/ the piece to be linked with the GPLed code might make it > GPL also, but that is another story. Actually this is an easy one. If you are the creator of the code, you can license it anyway you want. So you can make it both GPL and allow it to link with your code. Heck, put it under LGPL since GPL is allowed to link to that. Anyway, I don't think that the GPL is that powerful to affect things not linked directly with it. Just like the MS license can't make you do certain things that were stated in the license, the GPL can't take too much control over what you do. If something in the license is reasonable, than it is easy to enforce (like taking the code from GPL source and using it in a binary) but if it starts to stretch (like controlling the code you write and how you can use it) then that will have to be fought in court, and will probably lose. -- Stev - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/