but if the driver developers decide that they will not allow their work to
be used by the "evil commercial" platforms they will not do this.
David Lang
On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:52:15 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Raymond A. Ingles <inglesra@frc.com>
> To: Terry L Ridder <terrylr@tbcnet.com>
> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>
> Subject: Re: Linux Community & UDI is in the news
>
> On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Terry L Ridder wrote:
> [...]
> > 2. I raised this question in the first discussion of UDI on this
> > mailing list. There is no way that UDI drivers which are
> > GNU GPL'ed can be used in Commercial UNIX distributions unless the
> > original authors release the source code under two very different
> > software licenses. Given the responses I received from the original
> > discussion this seems extremely remote.
>
> Well, the drivers *could* be released under the LGPL (Library GPL) like
> glibc, which allows linking to, and use by, non-GPL software.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
>
> "Economies don't like step functions." - Dr. Leonard Bieman
>
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