On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 02:07:10PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2005 22:53:32 +0200, Admar Schoonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Currently, the cards only work in Solaris (afaict). However, Solaris > > will be open sourced within a few months, so perhaps some specs of the > > card will become available. Now if only I had a little more spare time > > and was a lot more competent in programming... > > I will not accept any code into the Linux kernel that was written based > upon the studying of the Solaris open source tree. The legal ramifications > of doing this are unclear, at best.
Fair enough. I indeed didn't think of the legal issues yet. According to http://www.opensolaris.org/license/index.html, the license for most of the OpenSolaris code will be CCDL (said to be a derivation of MPL, but I haven't studied it yet). I guess that means that one can't just take a piece of CCDL licensed code and "plug" it into a GPL program. However, I don't know if it's allowed to study CCDL licensed code and then write some similar code with a non CCDL license. Admar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
