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

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Message-Id: <1171622285.23981.20.camel@tara.firmix.at>
Date:	Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:38:05 +0100
From:	Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...mix.at>
To:	v j <vj.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Trent Waddington <trent.waddington@...il.com>,
	David Lang <david.lang@...italinsight.com>,
	Scott Preece <sepreece@...il.com>,
	Miguel Ojeda <maxextreme@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:25 -0800, v j wrote:
[...]
> No, just that the trend is disturbing. If enough Kernel Developers
> choose to write their Software in a way that prevents others from
> using it freely, then that is troubling. Especially when these Kernel

You can use it freely - your definitions of "free" and "closed" are
broken (at least on LKML).

> Developers are substituting existing interfaces in the Kernel with
> ones that are NEW and require specific licenses.

That claimed "specific license" is the very same license that the rest
of the kernel has since day 1. So what?

	Bernd
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