Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2000 09:36:44 -0700 (PDT) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: GPL and Linux kernel related question... |
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Lets not go here..........
It is bad enough that GPL code was STOLEN from an unnamed German company by an Israil company that was orginally an ATA-PSUEDO-FLASH. Personally this junk is all Soft IP, and they have violated GPL in the past in the 2.0/2.1 kernels. I have called them on the carpet, but with out the legal backing needed I had to back off........
Mind you this was some time ago, when I knew less and had less of a position to fight a good fight.
David W. has done what I do alot, but he can not publish all that he knows.
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, hiroaki yamamoto wrote:
> > hello everybody, > > I'm a fan of linux system and it makes 6 months that I follow the > different developments on the kernel. This afternoon, I downloaded > he latest test kernel, e.g. linux-2.4.0-test3-pre4, and I noticed > the presence of a new device driver type : MTD. I just have taken > a look on the sources and something seems very strange : when opening > linux/drivers/mtd/nftl.c, I read : > > > /* > LEGAL NOTE: The NFTL format is patented by M-Systems. They have > granted a licence for its use with their DiskOnChip products: > > "M-Systems grants a royalty-free, non-exclusive license under > any presently existing M-Systems intellectual property rights > necessary for the design and development of NFTL-compatible > drivers, file systems and utilities to use the data formats with, > and solely to support, M-Systems' DiskOnChip products" > > A signed copy of this agreement from M-Systems is kept on file by > Red Hat UK Limited. In the unlikely event that you need access to it, > please contact dwmw2@redhat.com for assistance. > */ > > > I thought that all the sources were submitted to GPL... I may be wrong > could anyone explain me that ? Thanks in advance. > > Kind regards, > > Hiroaki Yamamoto > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
Andre Hedrick The Linux ATA/IDE guy
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