[tulip] tulip on solaris

[Dan Stromberg]

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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:08:53AM -0500, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, minchu mo wrote:
>=20
> > Does anyone know how to convert the linux version of
> > tulip.c to solaris version?
> >=20
> > I have installed Intel Solaris 8 and need a unix
> > version of tulip as network driver.
>=20
> It would be a violation of the GPL to distribute a version of the Linux
> tulip driver ported to Solaris.  Well, at least until Scott McNealy GPLs
> Solaris (scheduled just after the evolution of porcine aviation).
>=20
> You should ask Sun for a driver -- after all, they tout how much better
> their commercial Unix is than Linux.  Remind them that "Sun's version of
> Linux is named Solaris".

Actually, if it's done as a loadable module, I don't think it is clear
that this would be a gpl violation.

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Dan Stromberg                                               UCI/NACS/DCS

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