Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964937AbWEOOOj (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 10:14:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964936AbWEOOOj (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 10:14:39 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.55]:37293 "EHLO ms-smtp-01.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964937AbWEOOOi (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 May 2006 10:14:38 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 10:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@gandalf.stny.rr.com To: "Nutan C." cc: Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel-Mailing-list , Fawad Lateef , jjoy@novell.com, "Mukund JB." , gauravd.chd@gmail.com, bulb@ucw.cz, greg@kroah.com, Shakthi Kannan , "Srinivas G." Subject: RE: GPL and NON GPL version modules In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1261 Lines: 28 On Mon, 15 May 2006, Nutan C. wrote: > As I said, I haven't started any development and wouldn't want to > proceed unless and until I am sure of not violating GPL. I am working on > a proprietary OS and I have a module which can talk to the OS through > remote mechanism. However, since the interface is susceptible to be used > by other OS as well, I wanted to make sure of it. I am not an expert in > Linux. And, that's the reason; I am seeking your opinion, so that I > don't falter at a later stage. > You don't need to be an expert in Linux to know this. You need to have an understanding of basic copyright law. You are not taking any GPL work and distributing it, so you are not even affected by the GPL at all. If this was the case, someone would have already written a GPL interface with MS Windows and made MS open up their source. (BTW, there is a GPL work that interacts remotely with MS, it's called Samba ;) Go ahead and start on your work. On what you have said, your are totally safe. -- Steve - 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/