On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Nathan Williams wrote:
quoted text > My company has been given documentation and the library source under
> the terms of an NDA with the chipset manufacturer. We are permitted
> to compile the library and distribute the resultant binary blob, but
> not release the source to the library.
Are you permitted to use the documentation to produce a free driver
that is not derived from the closed source code? That would put you
legally on the safe side and make a lot of your customers happy.
Arnd <><
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Re: MODULE_LICENSE usage , Arnd Bergmann , (Tue Aug 7, 12:17 am)