From 6adb31c90c47262c8a25bf5097de9b3426caf3ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 00:57:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] 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: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <tovalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index e3bb29a8d8dd8..c119484258b84 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
@@ -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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