linux-kernel - RE: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19]

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Message-Id: <1166588843.17734.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:27:23 -0500
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
Cc:	David Schwartz <davids@...master.com>,
	"Linux-Kernel@...r. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches
	for 2.6.19]

On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 11:11 +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, David Schwartz wrote:

> > That makes it clear that it's not about giving us the fruits of years of
> > your own work but that it's about enabling us to do our own work. (I would
> > have no objection to also requiring them to provide a minimal open-source
> > driver. I'm not trying to work out the exact terms here, just get the idea
> > out.)
> 
> Since `works with' may sound a bit too vague, something like
> `LinuxFriendly(tm)', with a happy penguin logo?
> 

I've bought a couple of products lately that had the happy penguin logo
on it. Just to find out that they only applied a bare minimum
functionality of the device for Linux. If you want more, you need to
plug it into a Windows box.

Funny, if you own a Mac, it had the same problem. It had a little more
functionality than the Linux port, but still far from what they give for
Windows.

I like the Open Hardware thing that Paolo mentioned.

-- Steve

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