Driver duplicate?

[Kenneth Adam Miller]

On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 4:49 PM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 16:08:01 -0500, Kenneth Adam Miller said:
>
> > Can't release it. It looks a lot like this though:
>
> Note that you're going to have a *really* hard time shipping hardware
> with a legal Linux driver you can't release source for.  You probably
> want to talk to your corporate legal eagles and explain the GPL to them,
> before somebody *else's* legal eagle explains the GPL to them, in the form
> of a injunction.
>

I have have an appreciation of the GPL too, and I love open source. I fight
with my organization all the time about what should and shouldn't be
released. I know that anybody that gets the binary will also get the source
code, but our distribution list is rather limited.
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