make kernel driver closed

[Richard Weinberger]

Am 25.01.2014 14:43, schrieb 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.

My first answer was "GTFO" but then I replaced it with a plain "No". :)

Vmware and Nvidia drivers are very special. And I'll definitely not explain here
the loopholes they are using to keep their drivers in the gray zone of GPL
compliance.

Thanks,
//richard