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Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 16:37:08 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org> To: Theodore Tso <tytso@....EDU> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, Magnus Wendt <magnus.wendt@...il.com>, Luc Verhaegen <libv@...net.be>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org> Subject: Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 07:03:22AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > We have sources to our web browsers but not to the a number of the > various web services that the browsers talk to (GMail, AIM, Gmane, > Yahoo Finance, Google Search, etc.). > > And we have the sources to the Intel wireless drivers, but not to the > firmware, and that's not necessarily considered a horrendous thing. But we did consider it a horrendous thing when we had the source to a Intel wireless driver but not the source to the usercode regulatory daemon it required. Sufficiently horrendous not to merge the driver. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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