On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Jonas Sundström wrote:
Is there any possible interpretation of the GPL
that would shut out the other, non-GPL systems from
using GPL:ed hardware? Will it still be okay to make,
e.g. closed source drivers for GPL:ed hardware,
license-less (public domain) or BSD-like licensed
drivers?
Far from any expert in the filed, but I think making a driver would be the
same as linking a program against a gpl library, the license would taint
the code, which would prevent the closed source driver. There would be a
need of a LGPL to allow closed source drivers.
Frankly I don't see the gain in making a closed source driver when
"everything" is already "open source", but of course microsoft would like
to hide their comments about open source ;)
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//Aho
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