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| author | Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> | 2007-08-08 19:57:54 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-08-09 11:40:21 -0400 |
| commit | 6adb31c90c47262c8a25bf5097de9b3426caf3ae (patch) | |
| tree | 1a8fc2bc8b0233e8308e9ea4f3e5b8f0ea17c3fe /Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | |
| parent | 620b5e68ee89ba1d3f017056857459dc21be8c7b (diff) | |
remove dubious legal statment from uio-howto
UIO currently contains a rather dubious statement which wants removing.
The actual questions around whether user space code that depends tightly
on kernel GPL code designed to co-work with it are derivative works of
the kernel is extremely complex, and since we don't have space for either
a masters length essay on legal issues or need to start flamewars lets
simply remove the comment and leave law to lawyers
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <tovalds@linux-foundation.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 4 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl index e3bb29a8d8dd..c119484258b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | |||
| @@ -133,10 +133,6 @@ interested in translating it, please email me | |||
| 133 | <para>updates of your driver can take place without recompiling | 133 | <para>updates of your driver can take place without recompiling |
| 134 | the kernel.</para> | 134 | the kernel.</para> |
| 135 | </listitem> | 135 | </listitem> |
| 136 | <listitem> | ||
| 137 | <para>if you need to keep some parts of your driver closed source, | ||
| 138 | you can do so without violating the GPL license on the kernel.</para> | ||
| 139 | </listitem> | ||
| 140 | </itemizedlist> | 136 | </itemizedlist> |
| 141 | 137 | ||
| 142 | <sect1 id="how_uio_works"> | 138 | <sect1 id="how_uio_works"> |