On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 10:44:09PM +0100, Daniel Mack wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2006, at 10:23 PM, David Brownell wrote: > > >I pointed this out to Philips a while back, but they didn't > >seem to believe me. They may well have some serious legal > >mis-understandings going over there. > > They can still hand out some piece of code to you, show you that > their hardware works but force you not to make it public, can't they?
If the license of the code they hand you is under the GPL, no, they can not. > Not that this makes any sense at all, but I've seen many companies > doing such nasty stuff. I've seen it tried to be done before too. thanks, greg k-h ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
