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>

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index e3bb29a..c119484 100644 (file)
--- 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">