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
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