On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 15:43:19 +0200, Alexandru Juncu said:
That is not true. Technically speaking, you could do that. Think of drivers from vmware or nvidia.
The only reason NVidia gets away with it is because it's not actually a Linux driver. To save Phani the trouble, I'll point at this quote:
Description: I have driver, I want make it non-open source. how can I do it?
The fact you have a Linux driver means you can't use the NVidia loophole. But let's step back a bit - what business problem are you trying to solve by making it non-open? What does that buy you, beside the fact that you get to support it alone, without the community helping? Here's a nice bonus: If you open source it and get it in the mainline kernel, you no longer have to spend programmer time updating your driver to newer kernels - because every time some maintainer breaks an API you used, it's now *their* job to fix your code for you. :)