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Message-ID: <59045.192.54.193.51.1170321748.squirrel@rousalka.dyndns.org> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 10:22:28 +0100 (CET) From: "Nicolas Mailhot" <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net> To: "Trent Waddington" <trent.waddington@...il.com> Cc: "Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>, "Theodore Tso" <tytso@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Free Linux Driver Development! Le Jeu 1 février 2007 10:03, Trent Waddington a écrit : > On 2/1/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@...oste.net> wrote: >> Well, reengineering nvidia/ati DRM is rude to ati/nvidia, so was >> creating >> tigon3, so was rewriting from scratch the GPL drivers some ATA vendors >> published in the past, so was spurning the SATA/SAS stack adaptec >> offered... > > It is rude, but they're writing proprietary modules, and *that* is > rude, so screw 'em. Not all of them. It seems it's kosher to rewrite a corp GPL driver but not a "community" one. And as others noted blocking merging is rude too. -- Nicolas Mailhot - 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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