Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 00:00

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"Ilya Zakharevich" <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> wrote in message
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> [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to J. Clarke
> <nospam@nospam.nospam>],
> who wrote in article <3891a604_4@news3.prserv.net>:
> > Developing device drivers commercially costs money--you have to pay the
> > developers.  If you're making it a commercial product, while you can use
the
> > Linux code to help figure out how the device works, then you need to
> > clean-room engineer your product, which adds cost, otherwise you run the
> > risk of the GPL being enforced against you.
>
> What risk?  GPL *is* enforced against you.

No.  It _can_ be.  It *is* only after the courts have ruled in a specific
case.

> But how is it a
> disadvantage in the context of device drivers?
>
> You will need to release your source code.  So what?

So if you want to sell your device driver commercially, and it contains
portions of code that are GPL protected, then the first person to buy your
device driver can then give it away gratis and what happens to your market?

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From: "J. Clarke" <nospam@nospam.nospam>
Subject: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)
Date: 2000/01/30
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