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remove dubious legal statment from uio-howto
authorAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Wed, 8 Aug 2007 23:57:54 +0000 (00:57 +0100)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 9 Aug 2007 15:40:21 +0000 (08:40 -0700)
UIO currently contains a rather dubious statement which wants removing.

The actual questions around whether user space code that depends tightly
on kernel GPL code designed to co-work with it are derivative works of
the kernel is extremely complex, and since we don't have space for either
a masters length essay on legal issues or need to start flamewars lets
simply remove the comment and leave law to lawyers

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <tovalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl

index e3bb29a8d8dd89f60f6bd2f83771a06111ea64cd..c119484258b8428d59b07b3046a5c5d48def9519 100644 (file)
@@ -133,10 +133,6 @@ interested in translating it, please email me
        <para>updates of your driver can take place without recompiling
        the kernel.</para>
 </listitem>
-<listitem>
-       <para>if you need to keep some parts of your driver closed source,
-       you can do so without violating the GPL license on the kernel.</para>
-</listitem>
 </itemizedlist>
 
 <sect1 id="how_uio_works">