jpeters
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Posted: May 28 2007,15:01 |
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I recently read about Agere (formerly Lucent) not supporting linux drivers for fear of being sued. Here's one quote:
"a softmodem driver needs to contain proprietary code that would be in hardware (firmware) for a hardware modem. The FSF's license (GPL) requires anyone using any part of Linux code to make all derivative works available for free - Agere is concerned that making a Linux driver available without making the source freely available might result in FSF suing Agere. (FSF has sued a number of companies over such issues.)"
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