On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:25:22AM -0700, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:25:22 -0700
> > From: Ion Badulescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Riley Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: Shawn Starr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T
> >
> > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:20:58 +0100 (BST), Riley Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > Shawn, I'd suggest you tell the said sales guy that IF he can get you
> > > the FULL specs TOGETHER WITH permission to freely distribute them, AND
> >
> > Permission to freely distribute the specs isn't necessary, although it
> > is nice indeed. All that's needed is permission to GPL the driver sources
> > written using knowledge from said specs.
>
> Which would still be a problem. You then have a GPL'ed driver which still
> cannot be sanely modified in the way the GPL would like to guarantee.
That isn't a problem - the GPL doesn't attempt to guarantee users the
INFORMATION needed to make sane changes, just that they have the facility
to do so. Just as the kernel doesn't come with a copy of the POSIX specs,
the RFCs, etc. - some of the standards the kernel implements aren't
available publicly, but that doesn't stop the kernel being freely
modifiable!
James.
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