Re: Can't use SYSFS for "Proprietry" driver modules !!!.

From: Alan Cox
Date: Sun Mar 27 2005 - 10:11:55 EST


On Sul, 2005-03-27 at 14:53, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Are you sure? It is perfectly legal to relicense things if you own the
> copyright. As long as he never distributes his GPL version I don't see
> why he should have a problem.

The GPL is a distribution license, it doesn't really matter what you do
*internally* with GPL code. It might be a DMCA violation in the USSA but
thats because the law is broken.

Alan

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