Re: Would I be violating the GPL?

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Thu Nov 10 2005 - 14:03:21 EST



>> So despite the fact the driver has been written in c++, it
>> might be possible to write a usable specification.
>
>Linux 2.6 doesn't accept c++, so you have to rewrite it anyway.

It does, to a limited degree. Just look at the VMware vmmon/vmnet driver
sources.

>You should ask them if you can publish your own driver based
>on infos you extract from their driver.



Jan Engelhardt
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