Re: licensing issues (was: netmd-dev digest, Vol 1 #332 - 1 msg)

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 07:52:44PM +0000, R.M. Morrien wrote:
> I'll release the first version of the driver and a simple example program 
> soon.
> The driver cannot be open source, but can be redistributable, this is 
> caused by Walter Oney, I used his Windows driver model book to create a new 
> driver. The program that contacts the driver can be open source and may be 
> input for other developers out there....

But the info you are using to create the driver, may also have licensing
issues. IE. The open-source libraries you are getting info from are, what,
GPL? If so, that requires that anything you create IS ALSO GPL. And the GPL
states at the source code must be available.

So, you may be getting yourself into a nasty catch 22 here. One license says
you must distribute source, the other says you must not.

tricky.

Thing is, I don't know for sure that the other code you've been looking at is
GPL'ed or not? (Depends what you were looking at..)

tjc