Re: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:24:10 +0100, s.schmidt@xxxxxx said:

> If it is no longer possible to have non-GPL USB drivers, we shall have to
> drop our Linux support for all AVM USB devices. We would even have to
> discontinue the 802.11g++ WLAN USB device driver Linux developement.

Why is there a problem releasing a GPL'ed USB driver?  That would solve
your problem just as well.  If you were really ambitious, you could clean
up the code and submit it for inclusion in the mainline tree - thus lowering
your support costs.

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