Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1995 13:36:21 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Cc: hvt@vie.co.at, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ISDN, X25 Questions Message-ID: <199508312036.NAA23339@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9508311819.AA27759@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> from "marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at" at Aug 31, 95 08:19:04 pm
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> Some other parts, unfortunately also the drivers for Dr. Neuhaus cards, > are under GNU General Public License. This one requires that you give away > the source to the derived program (in this case the kernel as a whole) if > it uses parts of GPL licensed code, in the case that the derived program > is distributed. This means that you cannot really sell binaries only, > and you cannot sell/distribute even parts of the system which are binary > only (proprietary drivers, for instance.) You can use them as you wish > for your own purposes, however. Or make the GPL'ed drivers into loadable modules, then you only have to distribute kernel sources if they are loaded at the time you make the distribution... which is "never". The sources for the driver itself will have to be distributed, but that's no big deal. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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