Re: FW: press release - new network driver architecture

From: Richard June (rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 20:42:53 EST


On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > > architecture called SAND (Standard Architecture for Network Drivers). The new Linux
> > > driver architecture is an advanced software component system for developing network
> > > drivers for Linux."
> >
> > License: like old BSD: free but with copyright/documentation
> > restriction
>
> The old BSD documentation restriction isnt GPL compatible so this is useless
> to Linux people and vendors planning to use it on Linux if they are keeping
> the old BSD restriction since such drivers could never be merged into the
> mainstream kernel
>
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Isent this already, the core module is LGPL, everything else in the source
tarball is GPL, if anything says different, marketing must die.

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