Re: Bewan PCI

A noter que ça n'est pas une violation de la GPL comme tu le pensais dans ton premier post. Bewan a le droit de mettre la licence qu'il veut (ici, une forme modifiée de la GPL "pure") pour le driver qu'il ecrit. C'est d'ailleur mentionné dans la FAQ de la GPL ( http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html ) ( gnu.org est down aujourdhui, voila un cache google: http://www.google.fr/search?q=cache:-IrhdYey9OMC:www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html+gpl-faq.html ) <blockquote> I am writing free software that uses non-free libraries. What legal issues come up if I use the GPL? [... description d'une exception deja prévue par la GPL...] If you want your program to link against a library not covered by that exception, you need to add your own exception, wholly outside of the GPL. This copyright notice and license notice give permission to link with the program FOO: Copyright (C) yyyy <name of copyright holder> This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA In addition, as a special exception, <name of copyright holder> gives permission to link the code of this program with the FOO library (or with modified versions of FOO that use the same license as FOO), and distribute linked combinations including the two. You must obey the GNU General Public License in all respects for all of the code used other than FOO. If you modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this exception statement from your version. Only the copyright holders for the program can legally authorize this exception. If you wrote the whole program yourself, then assuming your employer or school does not claim the copyright, you are the copyright holder--so you can authorize the exception. But if you want to use parts of other GPL-covered programs by other authors in your code, you cannot authorize the exception for them. You have to get the approval of the copyright holders of those programs. When other people modify the program, they do not have to make the same exception for their code--it is their choice whether to do so. </blockquote> Par contre la FAQ nous rappelle ensuite que les .o propriétaires, c'est mal(TM) :)