OSDL and the kernel community [LWN.net]

OSDL and the kernel community

Posted Jan 27, 2006 22:17 UTC (Fri) by gregkh (subscriber, #8)
In reply to: OSDL and the kernel community by ca9mbu
Parent article: OSDL and the kernel community

The NDA that would be signed would specifically allow the production
of code that is released under the GPL.

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OSDL and the kernel community

Posted Jan 28, 2006 3:00 UTC (Sat) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] (1 responses)

In other words, NVidia, for example, would not be interested. Basically this would be interesting to companies that don't want to give their actual specs away publicly, and are not interested in writing their own drivers for Linux, to get a bit more market share without giving too much away in a form that would make it too easy for their competitors to exploit, and without to heavy an expenditure on their part. Is that the idea?

OSDL and the kernel community

Posted Jan 28, 2006 3:30 UTC (Sat) by gregkh (subscriber, #8) [Link]

That is exactly correct.

OSDL and the kernel community

Posted Jan 28, 2006 10:29 UTC (Sat) by ca9mbu (guest, #11098) [Link]

Thanks very much for the cluebat, Greg!