From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: "Wichert Akkerman" <wichert@wiggy.net>
Cc: "Sean" <seanlkml@sympatico.ca>, "Mark Fortescue" <mark@mtfhpc.demon.co.uk>,
       "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:53:24 -0800
Message-ID: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKCEECCMAB.davids@webmaster.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
In-Reply-To: <1111935996.8664.322.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Importance: Normal
Reply-To: davids@webmaster.com
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 794
Lines: 19


> The GPL is a distribution license, it doesn't really matter what you do
> *internally* with GPL code. It might be a DMCA violation in the USSA but
> thats because the law is broken.

	You can't violate the DMCA on a GPL'd work. At least, if there's a way to
do, I couldn't find it. See some of the previous posts on this list about
whether the DMCA meant you couldn't remove the GPL tag on exported symbols.
The GPL explicitly permits you to modify the code as you wish, and this
includes removing any restriction or enforcement type code.

	DS


-
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/