From 6adb31c90c47262c8a25bf5097de9b3426caf3ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alan Cox Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:57:54 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl index e3bb29a8d8dd..c119484258b8 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl @@ -133,10 +133,6 @@ interested in translating it, please email me updates of your driver can take place without recompiling the kernel. - - if you need to keep some parts of your driver closed source, - you can do so without violating the GPL license on the kernel. - -- GitLab