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Marcus Daniels <marcus@ee.pdx.edu> wrote:
>Last I heard, Linus asked that all drivers be GPL'ed.  This is
>not in the spirit of the GPL.  Object-code in C is not a preferred form.
>Although it may be a nice portability trick.

What do people think of the following, in terms of the spirit of GPL?
I started work last summer on a project to allow the use of Novell disk
drivers under Linux and FreeBSD.  If I had not run out of free time when a
paying project came up, what would have resulted would have been a system
that would allow you to take the Novell driver for any SCSI host adaptor
and load it into your Linux or FreeBSD kernel, and get full support for that
host adaptor.  I was also thinking of writing a program that would convert
Novell drivers into Linux or FreeBSD .o files that could be directly linked
into the kernel.

All my code would have been released in a form compatible with GPL.
(Probably it would have been public domain).

Anyone have any thought on this sort of thing?  (I sent email to Linus, asking
if he had any objections, and received no answer).

--Tim Smith