From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 27 03:11:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA04562 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:11:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles310.castles.com [208.214.167.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA04555 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:11:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA02090; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:08:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812271108.DAA02090@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Nicolas Souchu cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mainboard Monitor Probes (Linux port too hard?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 26 Dec 1998 19:02:02 GMT." <19981226190202.57516@breizh.prism.uvsq.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 03:08:33 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message