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authorAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>2007-08-09 00:57:54 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-08-09 08:40:21 -0700
commit6adb31c90c47262c8a25bf5097de9b3426caf3ae (patch)
tree1a8fc2bc8b0233e8308e9ea4f3e5b8f0ea17c3fe
parent620b5e68ee89ba1d3f017056857459dc21be8c7b (diff)
remove dubious legal statment from uio-howto
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>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl4
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diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index e3bb29a8d8d..c119484258b 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
@@ -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">