linux-kernel - Re: A proposal

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Message-ID: <44D67109.6020605@vmware.com>
Date:	Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:45:29 -0700
From:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>, greg@...ah.com,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, Jack Lo <jlo@...are.com>
Subject: Re: A proposal - binary

Pavel Machek wrote:
> ...it should be very easy to opensource simple 'something' layer. If
> it is so complex it is 'hard' to opensource, it is missdesigned,
> anyway... so fix the design.
>   

It's not a design issue - it's a legal issue at this point, and one that 
I'm not qualified to come up with a good answer for.  The biggest 
technical issue I think for open sourcing the VMI, is that it is not 
part of the kernel, but stand alone firmware with a rather bizarre build 
environment, so the code alone is not sufficient to allow it to be open 
sourced, but this is not a hard problem to solve.

Zach
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