linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

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Message-ID: <479D8E9C.5030808@ladisch.de>
Date:	Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:13:16 +0100
From:	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
CC:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

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.


Regards,
Clemens
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