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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Nathan Williams" <ngwilliams@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE usage
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2007 09:17:38 +0200
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On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Nathan Williams wrote:
> My company has been given documentation and the library source under
> the terms of an NDA with the chipset manufacturer. ?We are permitted
> to compile the library and distribute the resultant binary blob, but
> not release the source to the library.

Are you permitted to use the documentation to produce a free driver
that is not derived from the closed source code? That would put you
legally on the safe side and make a lot of your customers happy.

	Arnd <><
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