Am Donnerstag 09 August 2007 01:40 schrieb Alan Cox: > > On the other hand, given that we've always said that closed-source stuff in > > userspace is OK, the only way to not let *that* horse out of the barn is to > > not merge UIO at all. > > It really makes no difference whether it is merged or not. The test is > "derivative work" and not 'linking'. > > A user space driver that is unusuable without a specific GPL kernel chunk > is quite likely to be a derived work of the GPL kernel module
I disagree. UIO is a documented kernel<->userspace interface, like sysfs or proc. Using your argument, we would also have to say that a userspace software that is unusable without sysfs is a derived work of the kernel. But IANAL, tell me if I missed an important point. > so the > documentation is giving poor advice however I guess you mean this sentence: "if you need to keep some parts of your driver closed source, you can do so without violating the GPL license on the kernel." What would you write instead? Thanks, Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/