On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 03:36:58AM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> That is clearly a violation of the GPL. However, the FSF can't
> do anything to enforce the terms for using Linux, because only
> the copyright holders of Linux have legal standing to do that.
>
> My interpretation of the GPL is that it covers dynamically loaded
> modules as well as statically-linked code. However, since it's up to
> the copyright holders of Linux to enforce the GPL for Linux, if they
> say proprietary dynamic modules are permitted, nobody else can object.
one should probably post this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] though.
I think, that the M-SYS People should be convinced to make source code
available.
The DOC driver currently does not support multiple Partitions on the DOC
Device, if it would be open source this could easily be added.
I strongly dislike these "we support Linux now" people, providing binary only
device drivers.
Regards
Sven
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