11 Jun
2006
11 Jun
'06
3:34 p.m.
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 01:29 -0500, Jan Depner wrote:
That's the consensus among kernel people. Not
lawyers. Take it to
court first. It has zero chance in that venue.
Can you cite any precedents?
The kernel people I am referring to have talked to their lawyers about
it and the consensus is that a driver is a derived work of the OS that
it is developed for.
Look at some driver source some day - it's basically impossible to write
a driver without using any kernel APIs - driver model, spinlocks, etc.
Lee