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Message-Id: <1171524970.12771.568.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 08:36:10 +0100 From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org> To: v j <vj.linux@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 21:16 -0800, v j wrote: > This is in reference to the following thread: > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/14/63 > > I am not sure if this is ever addressed in LKML, but linux is _very_ > popular in the embedded space. We (an embedded vendor) chose Linux 3 > years back because of its lack of royalty model, robustness and > availability of infinite number of open-source tools. I think you have a bit of a misunderstanding... Linux is not royalty free. Just the royalty is not in the form of cash, but in the form of having to give your improvements back to the open source world. (this is paraphrasing the intent of the GPL basically, you can argue for hours if drivers are separate or improvements, and I'm not interested in that debate, it has been debated to death before and only lawyers will in the end be able to settle that on a case by case basis). If your mindset is "how much can I take take take without giving back back back" then personally I think you're sort of acting like a parasite in this context.... - 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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