linux-kernel - Re: Developing non-commercial drivers ?

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Message-ID: <63125.1227036333@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:25:33 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Fredrik Markström 
	<fredrik.markstrom@...lonenterprise.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Developing non-commercial drivers ?

On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:16:44 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fredrik_Markstr=F6m?= said:
> I'm working for as a consultant for a large hardware company porting
> Linux to their new cpu-architecture and everything is pretty much
> up and running. Now they want us to develop a closed-source (to
> protect their IP) ethernet driver for their proprietary Ethernet MAC.

Am  I the only one that's boggled by the concept of a company that can develop
an entire CPU architecture and be OK on the GPL licensing of all the code
in arch/new-foo-cpu that exposes the IP of the cpu design, but they're worried
about the special sauce in a freakin' *ethernet controller*?

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