Rich Teer wrote:
On Thu, 9 Mar 2006, Eric Enright wrote:
I'm currently looking at porting a certain Linux driver to Solaris'
usbser/GSD framework, and am concerned about GPL/CDDL conflicts. I
know that a typical port would not be allowed, however my intent is to
only use the magic numbers and general chip programming logic rather
than reuse code. Would I be able to do that?
Well, IANAL, but it seems to me that one can't GPL magic numbers or
algorithms, so provided that you don't use any of the GPLed code, I
think you should be OK.
But can you put the definition of a function under the GPL ?
What is said function was an exact copy of an interface now
covered by the CDDL but was previously unpublished and private ?
What if was the other way around ?
Basically I'm saying it isn't that easy you must consult a real
lawyer. We inside Sun have to consult a lawyer every time we
want to add any free/open source software into a Sun product.
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Darren J Moffat
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