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

From: Diego Zuccato
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 03:07:51 EST


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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