On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Josenivaldo Benito Junior <jrben...@benito.qsl.br> wrote: > Hello, > This is Benito from Brazil and I am work on a Android product. > I am facing a patent issue with one driver that is not GPL.
Why are you asking legal questions on a developer mailing list? It's like asking medical questions, they really aren't relevant here and any advice you get might be totally wrong and cause you big problems. Please contact a lawyer and work with them on this issue. > It is out of my > control to release it GPL-like (I do not own the patent) Note, the GPL does not prohibit releasing patent-covered code at all, this is done quite often, and the Linux kernel itself has lots of patent covered code in it, and everything is just fine. > but I am authorized > to modify it to meet a feature requirement. I need to export a information > to user space (any application can read) but follow the common way (/sys FS) > will lead to GPL violation (AFAIK use kernel functions to export in /sys > will make the driver GPL too, am I wrong?). All kernel code must be released under the GPL, so there's not really a "if I use this function or not" type thing going on, sorry. Again, work with a lawyer. good luck, greg k-h -- unsubscribe: android-kernel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com website: http://groups.google.com/group/android-kernel
