Re: Binary only module overview

From: Arjan van de Ven (arjanv@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Sep 28 2001 - 09:14:25 EST


Daniel Caujolle-Bert wrote:

> > Hardware drivers
> > ----------------
> [...]
> > PCTel - winmodem driver
>
> This one is not really 100% binary only, it use
> an modified version of serial.c kernel driver. Of course
> it's freely available.

That I would call an obvious GPL violation... no discussion
about vague "interfaces", if you directly link serial.c
(even modified) into a non-GPL .o file that's obvious....
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