linux-kernel - Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

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Message-Id: <1171619047.5835.110.camel@frg-rhel40-em64t-03>
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:44:07 +0100
From:	Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>
To:	Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com>
Cc:	Stuart MacDonald <stuartm@...necttech.com>,
	v j <vj.linux@...il.com>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:36 -0600, Scott Preece wrote:
> if the drivers are for devices
> proprietary to their hardware, then they have no real value to anyone
> else. And the drivers MIGHT contain information useful to their actual
> competitors.

Don't you feel like a contradiction in those two sentences ? :)

	Xav


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