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

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From: Ilya Zakharevich
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:00

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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.  But how is it a
disadvantage in the context of device drivers?

You will need to release your source code.  So what?

Ilya

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From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
Subject: Re: Sound Cards and OS/2 (Creative PCI 128?)
Date: 2000/01/28
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