HI,
We are going to port Lucent's OCB PCI card driver in
to QNX.
can you tell me the mail-id to subscribe for
linux-kernel mailing list???
Thanks in advance - Jalaja
--- Karen Shaeffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Good for you. Now you can move forward with
> confidence.
>
> Which driver are you going to port?
>
> BTW, kernel related questions are best dealt with on
> the Linux kernel
> mailing list.
>
> c,
> --
> Karen Shaeffer
> Neuralscape; Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.neuralscape.com
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 05:45:01AM -0800, Jalaja
> Devi wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> > The company for whom i am working for has the
> written
> > permission from the author to goahead with porting
> the
> > code. So, I guess there should not be any prb
> now!!!
> >
> > Jalaja
> >
> > --- Karen Shaeffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:30:54AM -0600, Thomas
> > > Dodd wrote:
> > > > Ivan Jager wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > I think this is the relevant part of the
> GPL,
> > > but you should still read
> > > > > the whole license.
> > > >
> > > > Read Donald Becker's take on this. He wrote
> many
> > > of the NIC
> > > > drivers in/for the linux kernel (including the
> DEC
> > > tulip driver)
> > > >
> > > > http://www.scyld.com/expert/license.html
> > >
> > > That's an excellent statement. It makes it quite
> > > clear and looks like it
> > > could stand up in court. I remember when Sun
> > > released the porting _kit_ that
> > > would automagically port Linux drivers to
> Solaris.
> > > Mr. Becker was quite
> > > adamant about it being a flagrant violation of
> the
> > > GPL license.
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Non-GPL drivers for the linux kerenl are
> allowed
> > > > explicitly by Linus.
> > >
> > > This is true. But it is not what the questioner
> was
> > > intending to do. The
> > > questioner specifically stated the intent was to
> > > port a Linux device driver
> > > to QNX.
> > >
> > > There is an interesting consequence to Mr.
> Beckers
> > > interpretation. Any
> > > driver, under any license, that links in with
> the
> > > Linux kernel becomes a
> > > part of the _work_ which is the Linux
> kernel--and
> > > therefore is automagically
> > > covered by the GPL. Linus has made the exception
> for
> > > NON-GPL drivers, but
> > > that exception does not permit one to port and
> > > distribute Linux driver code
> > > to NON-GPL OSs. Of course, if you don't
> distribute
> > > the code--you can do
> > > whatever you want with it. (You surely concur. I
> > > just think it's important
> > > to make this distinction explicit in
> conversations
> > > concerning these type
> > > issues.)
>
>
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