Re: License go no go?

gregat_private

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 02:08:09PM -0700, Dragan Stancevic wrote:
> On Friday 25 October 2002 23:38, Greg KH wrote:
> > There are also a number of Linux programmers, with copyrights on either
> > the security.h file, or the code where the LSM hooks that have publicly
> > stated that they would sue any makers of proprietary LSM modules.
> 
> Well what about the instance of writing your own headers? I've been working 
> with driving hardware mostly so I am thinking of an example where a specific 
> piece of hardware stores a specific structure in memory:
> struct {
> 	u32 cmd;
> 	u32 status;
> };
> 
> Would that make l-k programmers liable because drivers for windows existed 
> first? As it was explained to me by a lawyer things that can be done only one 
> way are not considered derived or infringedupon. It falls under a separate 
> category.

I don't know, as I am not a lawyer, sorry.

greg k-h
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