Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-21 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers > > > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons wh

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-21 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Tue, 15 Sep 1998, Paul M. Foster wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers > > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a person > > could not use the device drivers written fo

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread john
Paul M. Foster writes: > I suspect there *is* a legal issue here. If you buy MS Windows, you > install the device drivers on your system as part of the software. He's talking about drivers that come with hardware, not with Windows. > I haven't checked MS's license, but they may have a license lik

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread john
Geoffrey L. Brimhall writes: > The first question is the basic licensing of the driver - I don't think > this is an issues because I would think the license is attached with the > hardware installed on the machine. So I wouldn't think it matters if the > device driver is being used on Linux or Wind

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Mon, Sep 14, 1998 at 10:31:49PM -0700, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a person > could not use the device drivers written for the MS Windows operating sys

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread Helge Hafting
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 09/14/98 at 10:31 PM, "Geoffrey L. Brimhall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device >drivers (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why >a person could not use the device drivers written fo

Re: Legal issues with having Linux use Windows device drivers

1998-09-15 Thread Paul M. Foster
On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > Aside from the technical issues of having Linux use windows device drivers > (such as the video card drivers), are there any legal reasons why a person > could not use the device drivers written for the MS Windows operating system ? I suspect