Re: Symbols match 2.2 <-> 2.4

tytso@mit.edu
Thu, 29 Jun 2000 01:02:47 -0400


Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 21:41:53 +0200
From: Kurt Garloff <garloff@suse.de>

It can't be that hard to recompile the module for 2.4.0 even for L*cent
engineers.
There might be some slight changes necessary at the places where the module
interfaces the kernel, but that should be a work of a couple of minutes. As
they stole code from serial driver, probably only the changes there need to
be redone ...=20

(And I wonder, whether they have a written statement by Ted that allows them
to use the serial code with a license different from GPL?)

No, they don't have a such a statement from me, and I've already let
them know that they're in violation of the GPL. Lucent was *supposed*
to have split the propietary code into its own .o file, and kept
released the Linux glue code as a .c. This solves the GPL problem,
since the user is doing the linking....

I think they should have released a version that you should be able to
compile for 2.4.0; I'm surprised that hasn't happened yet.

- Ted

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