On Feb 9, 2008 6:50 PM, Christer Weinigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A device driver isn't that hard either. I can write a device driver > with a hand tied behind my back, to write a good balancing tree, I'd > have to spend a lot more time reading up on algorithms. So "trivial" is > a matter of background.
It doesn't matter how "hard" it was to write that code. What matters is whether your code requires enough copyrighted aspects of the original work to constitute as derived work. There's a huge difference between using kmalloc and spin_lock and writing a driver that is built on to of the full USB stack of Linux kernel, for example. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/