[Info-vax] ODS5 on Linux

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/14/2012 9:15 PM, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 20:10 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Sadly, the source code is not available but the author is more than
>>> happy to build the kernel module and associated files on request.
>>
>> Has he put in a shim between his stuff and the kernel?
>>
>> If not he is violation of the GPL license!
>
> Actually, no he isn't. As he wrote the code, he's perfectly entitled to
> put restrictions on his work.

No - he is not, because he is using somebody else's code
and has to comply with their license.

A driver without a shim is linked with the kernel.

The kernel is under GPL.

Any code linked with GPL code has to be under GPL itself.

When the code is under GPL then anyone that get a binary has
the right to the source.

Arne

PS: Besides the shim trick a few has gotten exception permissions
     when the driver code was not written for Linux but ported to
     Linux.