Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> 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?
You can get the open-source DOC drivers (and other flash drivers) from
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/
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