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UIO: user-space drivers

UIO: user-space drivers

Posted Oct 7, 2009 9:55 UTC (Wed) by etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr (guest, #38022)
In reply to: UIO: user-space drivers by nlucas
Parent article: UIO: user-space drivers

> This dangerously seems like an atempt to be able to create proprietary drivers and bypass the GPL.

Probably only me, probably because IANAL, but I fail to see how an UIO driver would not be a derivative work of the kernel.
That would obviously be different if this interface was implemented in *BSD, Solaris, Windows... but I do not see that being the intent.
And implementing a GPL layer to connect a non-GPL driver would not change that the non-GPL driver is a derivative work of a GPL driver, which is a derivative work of the kernel.
Now if the law were applied...

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UIO: user-space drivers

Posted Oct 7, 2009 18:28 UTC (Wed) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

being designed to worth with is NOT the same as being derived from

if it was then every windows program would be derived from windows (after all, what other OS implements those system calls? SAMBA doesn't count as it is explicitly a copy of the windows API)

as such the license of the kernel is irrelevant for UIO simply because it is userspace and is using the defined interface.


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