Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

Patrick Lamaizière <patfbsd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
You cannot include a file under the GPL license without being
contaminated. Even a simple .h with only some #define.

On the contrary, as was settled in SCO v. IBM, constant and structure
definitions are not copyrightable if they are dictated by external
factors, such as compatibility with existing software or hardware.

There are even cases in which actual code is not copyrightable,
specifically if the algorithm it implements is so simple that no
reasonable programmer would have implemented it in any other way.

(SCO tried to argue, among other things, that Linux had stolen errno.h
from SCO Unix)

DES
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