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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:17:03 +0100 From: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@...dent.ltu.se> To: v j <vj.linux@...il.com> CC: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers v j wrote: > On 2/14/07, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: >> > This is in reference to the following thread: >> > >> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 >> > >> > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ >> > popular in the embedded space. We (an embedded vendor) chose Linux 3 >> > years back because of its lack of royalty model, robustness and >> > availability of infinite number of open-source tools. >> >> >> I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding... Linux is not royalty >> free. Just the royalty is not in the form of cash, but in the form of >> having to give your improvements back to the open source world. > > Sure. But this is not legally binding. Please clarify! http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/07/23/1558219.shtml?tid=117&tid=123 Richard Knutsson - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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