Re:How to Avoid GPL Issue

Xose Vazquez Perez (xose@wanadoo.es)
Sat, 28 Jun 2003 02:55:17 +0200


Dear Sir or Madam,

>We are trying to port a third party hardware driver into Linux kernel and
>this third party vendor does not allow us to publish the source code. Is
>there any approach that we can avoid publicizing the third party code while
>porting to Linux? Do we need to write some shim layer code in Linux kernel
>to interface the third party code? How can we do that? Is there any document
>or samples?

You should begin reading 'Proprietary kernel modules' at
http://people.redhat.com/rkeech/pkm.html

regards,

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