triple talk internal/external

[Gregory Nowak]

I thought as much, but wondering/asking
never hurts.
Greg


On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:19:12AM -0500, Kirk Wood wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Gregory Nowak wrote:
> > I just had an idea and wondered if its doable.
> > What if the FSF signed all those non-disclosure agreements? Then we
> > could have gpl Linux drivers, right or not?
> 
> The problem is that if the driver is gpl, then said driver would violate
> any non-disclosure. If you release source code, then you reveal the
> interface. It would be possible to release a driver avaialable for free
> download. But you couldn't release the source code and thus not use the
> gpl.
> 
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> Kirk Wood
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