Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965218AbXBOIke (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:40:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965317AbXBOIke (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:40:34 -0500 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:62499 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965218AbXBOIke (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 03:40:34 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MvD6ktntAOZGf5NREMgmj6+ZVQq4SHDK3bqSG8fJN1vJc8yRwrx7ApPPBjbxfxWE7yV1jU16KvizVcT+Zr5wJv7AN6a6B69oZt0J0q3Kp3GSnAh2H3Tp7VwsziwA7ir1PX6VV7PqLUSXMUTLukwgb0n9wxXTJcSGMRpUy3R1avw= Message-ID: <9b3a62ab0702150040i593d4f25p4beb7fcd1a81f9a8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:40:31 -0800 From: "v j" To: "Richard Knutsson" Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers Cc: "Arjan van de Ven" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <45D416FF.4030302@student.ltu.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9b3a62ab0702142115m4ea7d2c0m6869eb64ef3ee14e@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142116n4069e16cl1bc8f546f41d935@mail.gmail.com> <1171524970.12771.568.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <9b3a62ab0702150004n78763d4ei652b41c7edcd0755@mail.gmail.com> <45D416FF.4030302@student.ltu.se> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1344 Lines: 33 Oh, I am sorry. Seems like the German courts have spoken. I am not sure about what, but they have spoken. Sorry for the confusion. On 2/15/07, Richard Knutsson wrote: > 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. > Please clarify! > http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/23/1558219.shtml?tid=117&tid=123 > > Richard Knutsson > > - 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/