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Message-ID: <m3k5s75eyb.fsf@maximus.localdomain> Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:20:44 +0200 From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl> To: "Nathan Williams" <ngwilliams@...il.com> Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE usage "Nathan Williams" <ngwilliams@...il.com> writes: > The binary blob is run in the kernel. I wasn't aware of any > completely open-source drivers for ADSL modems, mine is a PCI ADSL > modem. People around here use Alcatel/Thomson "Speedtouch" and Sagem "Fast" USB ADSLs. Linux has open-source drivers for both. USB seems like an advantage in this case, too - you can connect to any machine including non-PCI small network storage servers with non-x86 CPU. Hopefully you have a x86-64 version of the library as well. You may want to check video cards stories, it seems either your device is useful and it _will_ be reverse engineered and eventually a open-source driver will be written, or your device isn't useful and nobody will bother. I both cases open-source from start is a clear win. -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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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