* B. James Phillippe <bryanxms@ecst.csuchico.edu> [011121 03:30] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Pardon a newbie question...
> 
> I have just started working with the SysKonnect SK9D adapter on Linux-2.4
> for a project at work.  SysKonnect releases their Linux driver under the
> GPL (for the latest boards, it is still a patch, but for the SK98 board it
> is part of the 2.4 kernel).  I am wondering if there is any kind of support
> for this board (the SK9D, not SK98) under NetBSD.
> 
> If not, what is the general rule regarding porting of drivers from Linux to
> *BSD?  I would guess that it is "you can't, really", because of the
> infectious GPL.  But I would love to be proved wrong.
> 
> Any comments?

You can crib, but you can not copy verbatim (sp?).


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 start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.'
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