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Message-ID: <20080128161330.GC8790@kroah.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:13:30 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de> Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:58:55AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > >> Greg KH wrote: > >> > Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed > >> > there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the > >> > GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision. > >> > > >> > There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch > >> > should cause no problems. > >> > >> There are the commercial OpenSound drivers. > > > > What are they? Do you have a link to them? > > http://www.opensound.com/ > > > And why have I not heard from any user of them for the past two years > > (we have had a kernel warning for over 2 years for this issue.) > > They aren't used widely (with Linux), and AFAIK the USB driver doesn't > have anything to favor it over the ALSA driver. Ok, then we don't have any issues :) thanks, greg k-h -- 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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