Subject: Re: Porting a modem driver from Linux to NetBSD
To: Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+tech-kern@bjan.net>
From: None <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/17/2003 15:52:07
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:40:44AM -0700, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:27:04PM +0200, cube@cubidou.net wrote:
> > In the Linuxant issue, as long as they are the copyright owner of
> > the GPL'd code, they can distribute it under another license too,
> > allowing them to distribute a binary form of the driver.
> 
> Just to be clear on this point: they aren't the owner of the GPL'd
> code. The GPL'd files are adapted from the Linux sources. Therefore,
> Linuxant really have no choice in thier license for these particular
> files.

Thanks for the precision. This is history, anyway, now that you have
to pay for those drivers... *sigh*

That's a reason more to develop a port of the last freely
redistribuable version, though.

Quentin Garnier.