linux-kernel - Re: GPL question: using large contiguous memory in proprietary driver.

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Message-ID: <20081015100521.739277f2@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:05:21 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	"Kaz Kylheku" <kkylheku@...il.com>
Cc:	"Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@...tel.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL question: using large contiguous memory in proprietary
 driver.

> But thanks to the gracious tolerance of the kernel development
> community, such drivers are permitted to exist. That is the question:

Thats an interesting interpretation and not one I'd want to rely upon.

> setting aside GPL chapter and verse, could that tolerance extend
> to allow such a driver to get a piece of boot-time memory, and if so,
> what mechanism would be tolerated?

You should discuss such matters with your lawyer. What you are trying to
ask I think is a question about what constitutes an independant work, and
that is a legal not a technical question.

Alan
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