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

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Date:	Wed, 6 Feb 2008 22:14:30 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
To:	Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@...e.fr>
cc:	gregkh@...e.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: RE: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only 


On Feb 1 2008 15:45, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
>..
>> There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this
>> patch should cause no problems.
>
>There is the unicorn usb adsl modem driver (STM unicorn chip).
>http://www.bewan.com/bewan/drivers/A1012-A1006-A904-A888-A983-0.9.3.tgz
>There is some sources and a binary blob to be linked.
>
>The only things I know from the binary blob is that sources should be 150 000
>lines of C++.

It's 63 C++ files actually (wow, that even beats the blob-iness of nvidia!)
and a few files look rather empty. Their source would rather benefit
from getting a review on LKML.
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