Commit 6adb31c9 authored by Alan Cox's avatar Alan Cox Committed by Linus Torvalds

remove dubious legal statment from uio-howto

UIO currently contains a rather dubious statement which wants removing.

The actual questions around whether user space code that depends tightly
on kernel GPL code designed to co-work with it are derivative works of
the kernel is extremely complex, and since we don't have space for either
a masters length essay on legal issues or need to start flamewars lets
simply remove the comment and leave law to lawyers
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <tovalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 620b5e68
......@@ -133,10 +133,6 @@ interested in translating it, please email me
<para>updates of your driver can take place without recompiling
the kernel.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>if you need to keep some parts of your driver closed source,
you can do so without violating the GPL license on the kernel.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<sect1 id="how_uio_works">
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