Armin Schindler wrote:
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi All,
I have some boards I would like to add support for in OpenPBX, but I
just realized that I can't release the driver since it contains (1)
binary firmware + (2) a binary component I don't have source for.
My understanding of GPL is that it will be impossible to use OpenPBX
with this board and distribute the driver even if it's free ?
Does anyone have a solution for this, cause it can't be in the interest
of this group to have a limitation on what boards we can use with OpenPBX???
What kind of code is that?
You wrote 'driver', you mean a kernel driver? If yes, then it has nothing to
do with OpenPBX. Loading binary-only driver into the kernel is done often.
Or is it some extension to OpenPBX itself? If yes, then it cannot be part of
the sources, because the must be GPL too then. But if you create a loadable
module for OpenPBX (as binary-only .so file), it should be no problem.
Armin
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Thanks,
Yes it will be a kernel driver at the end - This is a port from
Windows. The trouble is that this board uses an early version of an I2O
driver module that was bought from someone else and hence I can't be
distributed with source - Neither do I want to change it because if I
do I will need to change the HDM as well (firmware version of the
driver).
jvb
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