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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>
Alan Cox 18 years ago
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@@ -133,10 +133,6 @@ interested in translating it, please email me
 	<para>updates of your driver can take place without recompiling
 	<para>updates of your driver can take place without recompiling
 	the kernel.</para>
 	the kernel.</para>
 </listitem>
 </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>
 </itemizedlist>
 
 
 <sect1 id="how_uio_works">
 <sect1 id="how_uio_works">