Re: Copyright / licensing question

[Rik van Riel]

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Frank klein wrote:

> 1. For explaining the internals of a filesystem in
> detail, I need to take their code from kernel sources
> 'as it is' in the book. Do I need to take any
> permissions from the owner/maintainer regarding this ?
> Will it violate any license if reproduce the driver
> source code in my book ??

Reproducing GPL code is legal, though you may want to
make sure that the copyright notice on the book doesn't
accidentally try to prohibit your readers from further
distributing said code ;)

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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