[3c509] LINUX & QNX Device Drivers!!

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Wed, 21 Feb 2001 17:50:25 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Jalaja Devi wrote:

> > It's a license violation.
> > Some of the existing QNX drivers, such as the 3Com
> > driver, are in
> > violation of the license.

> Thanks for the info. So, you mean to say that there
> won't be any documentation available on this as open
> source?

I wasn't aware that any part of the QNX kernel was open source.

I found out about the QNX license violation by seeing my error messages
in their driver.  If QNX had been open source, they likely never would
have risked stealing the code.

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