In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10003221020230.3649-100000@rocky> you wrote:
> > How do handle this with the GPL requirements?
> >
> > AFAIK the DOC drivers are available in binary only, but if you want
> > to put the boot device on DOC, you have to link this driver with the
> > kernel, thus it gets "infected" by the GPL? Am I missing something?
>
> Actually, with this there is no problem. GPL allows this kind of thing.
> Patches and changes may be distrubuted without becoming subject to the
> license. But if the whole is distributed it must fall under the license.
So how can you ever distribute a product based on a Linux kernel,
which has the DOC code statically linked, without providing full
sources - including for the DOC stuff?
Wolfgang Denk
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