Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

From: Nicolas Mailhot
Date: Thu Feb 01 2007 - 04:23:37 EST



Le Jeu 1 fÃvrier 2007 10:03, Trent Waddington a Ãcrit :
> On 2/1/07, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Well, reengineering nvidia/ati DRM is rude to ati/nvidia, so was
>> creating
>> tigon3, so was rewriting from scratch the GPL drivers some ATA vendors
>> published in the past, so was spurning the SATA/SAS stack adaptec
>> offered...
>
> It is rude, but they're writing proprietary modules, and *that* is
> rude, so screw 'em.

Not all of them.
It seems it's kosher to rewrite a corp GPL driver but not a "community" one.

And as others noted blocking merging is rude too.

--
Nicolas Mailhot

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