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

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Message-ID: <47AABC4A.7010105@otello.alma.unibo.it>
Date:	Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:07:38 +0100
From:	Diego Zuccato <diego@...llo.alma.unibo.it>
To:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	David Newall <davidn@...idnewall.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

Christer Weinigel ha scritto:

> I think it is perfectly within their rights to do so.  I think it's
> kind of silly to try to hide it, if someone wants to boost the maximum
> transmit power, they're going to hack the firmware anyway.  But if it
> makes Intel happy, well... :-)
And break the HW :-) Actually, they could be happier, since then you 
have to buy another...

[...]
> preliminary go ahead from the bosses to provide documentation under an
> NDA to Linux developers that would like to write GPL drivers for it.  I
[...]
Urgh... I don't think NDAs and Open Source mix well... Are you sure your 
bosses KNOW Linux and the OS in general? :-)

BYtE,
  Diego.
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