--- David Hageman [email protected] wrote:
*sigh*
http://www.rosenlaw.com/lj19.htm
Lawyers! Giving legal advice without money! Looks like they specialize in this stuff! Sweet!
And in particular, this paragraph where a Lawyer directly contradicts what Greg KH says that "lawyers" told him (note all caps emphasis):
"Derivative works are not going to encompass plug-ins and DEVICE DRIVERS that are designed to be linked from other off-the-shelf, unmodified, programs. If Linux is designed to accept separately-designed plug-in programs, you dont create a derivative work by merely running such a program under Linux, even if you have to look at the Linux source code to learn how to do so."
Seems IP Lawyers disagree, not agree, with Greg KH on the subject of whether it is possible to create a closed source kernel module, by saying that it is possible to create a LEGAL closed-source kernel module.
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