On Feb 18, 12:23pm, Ale Terlevich wrote:
> Subject: RE: (Small) Hardware donation(s)...
>
>
> On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Jasper Wallace wrote:
> >
> > I assume you mean 'drivers' ;-). Linux supports them which means that the
> > information is freely available (due to vairous sillynesses with licences
> > we can't use linux source code and they can't use ours, but we can port
> > information AFAICR). Oh just found a freebsd port of the linux driver:
>
>  I thought we could use gnu stuff so long as we kept to the gnu licence.
> I.e. make the source freely available. Does this contradict the BSD
> licence at all?

Yup. They're incompatible. This means you can't put GNU stuff in the kernel.

Cheers

Rob