Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965128AbXBOINW (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:13:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965127AbXBOINW (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:13:22 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:46791 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965124AbXBOINV (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:13:21 -0500 Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers From: Arjan van de Ven To: v j Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <9b3a62ab0702150004n78763d4ei652b41c7edcd0755@mail.gmail.com> References: <9b3a62ab0702142115m4ea7d2c0m6869eb64ef3ee14e@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142116n4069e16cl1bc8f546f41d935@mail.gmail.com> <1171524970.12771.568.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <9b3a62ab0702150004n78763d4ei652b41c7edcd0755@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:13:13 +0100 Message-Id: <1171527194.12771.575.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1401 Lines: 32 On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 00:04 -0800, v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: > > > This is in reference to the following thread: > > > > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > > > > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > > > popular in the embedded space. We (an embedded vendor) chose Linux 3 > > > years back because of its lack of royalty model, robustness and > > > availability of infinite number of open-source tools. > > > > > > I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding... Linux is not royalty > > free. Just the royalty is not in the form of cash, but in the form of > > having to give your improvements back to the open source world. > > Sure. But this is not legally binding. that's a legal conclusion that is ... iffy at least. I'm not a lawyer, but I suggest you talk to a real one before making that conclusion, and you'll see it's not as simple as that. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/