Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T

[Ralf Baechle]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 03:25:22AM -0700, Ion Badulescu wrote:
> Date: 	Wed, 13 Jun 2001 03:25:22 -0700
> From: Ion Badulescu <[e-mail]>
> To: Riley Williams <[e-mail]>
> Cc: Shawn Starr <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>,
>         Alan Cox <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: Gigabit Intel NIC? - Intel Gigabit Ethernet Pro/1000T
> 
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:20:58 +0100 (BST), Riley Williams <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> > Shawn, I'd suggest you tell the said sales guy that IF he can get you
> > the FULL specs TOGETHER WITH permission to freely distribute them, AND
> 
> Permission to freely distribute the specs isn't necessary, although it 
> is nice indeed. All that's needed is permission to GPL the driver sources
> written using knowledge from said specs.

Which would still be a problem.  You then have a GPL'ed driver which still
cannot be sanely modified in the way the GPL would like to guarantee.

  Ralf