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

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Message-ID: <20080207150503.GC7198@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Date:	Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:05:03 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	Diego Zuccato <diego@...llo.alma.unibo.it>
Cc:	Christer Weinigel <christer@...nigel.se>,
	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

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:07:38AM +0100, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> Christer Weinigel ha scritto:
>...
> [...]
>> 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? :-)

Developing GPL'ed Linux drivers with an NDA on the documentation has 
been done in hundreds of cases.

It's less nice than having free documentation but not a problem.

> BYtE,
>  Diego.

cu
Adrian

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