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Message-ID: <20110801143108.GU29803@nalle> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 17:31:08 +0300 From: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi> To: Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux, binary blob and binary driver summary for vendors? On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 03:13:02PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:42:12 +0300 > Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi> wrote: > > > What is a good and also technically detailed summary of the binary blob and > > driver issues with Linux kernel and GPL? > > > > I'd like to refer a vendor to some documentation regarding this instead > > writing a ton of text with IANAL everywhere. > > I would suggest they talk to the Linux Foundation. It's basically a legal > question around derivative works, and that's a lawyer question that tends > to need looking at by lawyers per piece of code. Good point, thanks. > Aside from that there are technical, marketing and PR things to consider. For the technical issues I've found Documentation/stable_api_nonsense.txt and these links: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/technical-advisory-board-tab/lfstatement http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_blob These should be enough to start. Next question will hopefully be answered by the staging tree. -Mikko -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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