Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:08:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@teaser.fr> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes (Linux port too hard?) Message-ID: <199812271108.DAA02090@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:02:02 GMT." <19981226190202.57516@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr>
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> >I think our designs are sufficiently different that all we're going to
> >get from their code are ideas, so the licenses aren't necessarily a
> >real problem...
>
> \begin{flame}
>
> Ideas are not under the GPL? I thought the license was universal!?! :)
> That's what the Linux associations try to convince us with, here in France.
>
> \end{flame}
No. The code is covered under the GPL, but if you look at their code,
say "I can see that these are the meanings of the bits in this
register" and then implement your code using that information rather
than copying the code, you are technically clean.
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