On Sun, Jun 29, 2003 at 06:44:06PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > Is there any approach that we can avoid publicizing the third party code > > while porting to Linux? Do we need to write some shim layer code in Linux > > kernel to interface the third party code? How can we do that? Is there any > > document or samples? > > It is impossible. To say more, it is *meant* to be impossible.
it is no problem to offer binary only modules. As long as the porting can be done as a loadable module, and does not use the GPL symbols this will work. However this is strongly undesireable, will neighter get you commercial success not is it a good (supportable) technical solution. > Or they can also do like Nvidia and ignore the GPL restrictions, but it > is just tolerated in this single case by Linus Torvalds, and may not be > in other cases. drivers and modules are allowed to be binary only. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O____O) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!