Re: Would I be violating the GPL?

From: Nix
Date: Wed Nov 02 2005 - 10:30:16 EST


On 2 Nov 2005, Alex Lyashkov moaned:
>> > 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.
>> You should ask them if you can publish your own driver based
>> on infos you extract from their driver.
>>
> without exeption c++ code can be used at drivers.

The rather important `struct class' may give you trouble there.

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