Subject: Re: GPL'd code in kernel drivers
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
From: Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/29/2001 19:10:16
"Jared D. McNeill" wrote:

> I just finished writing a sound driver that needs to load some GPL'd
> microcode onto the chip before it will work.
>
> I would like to find a way to integrate my own code into the kernel, but
> load the GPL'd code separately to prevent licensing issues. There are a
> few data structures in the header that I need to access to properly
> initialize the card.

Rewrite those structs.  Make them similar, but not the same.
It's the code that has the copyright, not the information.

    -- Lennart