make kernel driver closed

[Alexandru Juncu]

On 25 January 2014 12:58, Richard Weinberger
<richard.weinberger at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:12 AM, phani kumar
> <yakkaladevi.phani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is there any way to make kernel driver closed(not open source)?
>>
>> Description: I have driver, I want make it non-open source. how can I do it?
>
> No.

That is not true. Technically speaking, you could do that. Think of
drivers from vmware or nvidia.

But to answer the initial question, you could do that, but the Linux
community will highly disapprove of that. The point of open source is
to have a product like Linux that you could freely use, and if you
make something to improve it, submitted back to the community, so
everybody wins.

Because it's strange that you are asking the community for help on
doing this, but you are not willing to give something back to it.

So please, don't make your driver closed.