In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
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> Letīs say, a company plans to build a stand alone device that internally
> uses Linux as operating system. In order to keep size small and so on
> DOCs are used to load the operating system. As far as I understood now
> the DOC driver has to be included in the kernel image which is on the
> DOC. In order to mount the root device and so on which actually is the
> DOC, the driver is needed.
You may have a way out if you have something like a BIOS which boots
the kernel, and a kernel with an initrd image which contains a module
with the DOC drivers.
I'm not a lawyer, but _maybe_ such a contruct would be acceptable.
Any comments?
> So, what about the concequences for this company when distributing
> (selling) this device in the described setup? I doubt that, if it is
> correct what you wrote, it wonīt be ok. Right or wrong?
IMHO it would be wrong, against the GPL...
Wolfgang Denk
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