Re: OT Ubuntu reaches out to embarrassed SuSE devs

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On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 17:05 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
> What does 'likely' mean?  First you'd have to show that a device
> driver is a derived work from the kernel in copyright terms, since
> that is all that the GPL can cover - which is a pretty odd concept
> to begin with.

Every device driver includes common kernel headers without which they
would be useless. This makes them derived works, as I understand it.
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