Re: What about copyright?

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On Wednesday 22 January 2003 03:44 am, mika1977_at_virgilio.it wrote:
> Hi everybody, I'm new in Comedi community and, above all, new in Open
> Source distribution (I mean, this is the first time I would like to release
> something!), so that I have few questions. Once completed a driver for my
> Sensoray board, not just bugless but a working driver for my research
> purposes, I found the Sensoray one, obviously more complete, stable and so
> on. Now I think that the best thing for everybody is to wear with Comedi
> this driver, not just mine, but I don't know what this involves in terms of
> copyrights. Sensoray's code is freely distributed, but protected. Can I
> take it as is, transform it, and send it to Comedi or not? Can someone
> explain to me with few words how deal such a situation?
> Thank you, Mika.
>

You can if whatever license they distribute it under is compatible with the 
GPL.  This link might be helpful:

http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

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Frank

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Received on 2003-01-23Z04:40:58