Re: MODULE_LICENSE usage

[Krzysztof Halasa]

"Nathan Williams" <ngwilliams@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> The binary blob is run in the kernel.  I wasn't aware of any
> completely open-source drivers for ADSL modems, mine is a PCI ADSL
> modem.

People around here use Alcatel/Thomson "Speedtouch" and Sagem
"Fast" USB ADSLs. Linux has open-source drivers for both.
USB seems like an advantage in this case, too - you can connect
to any machine including non-PCI small network storage servers
with non-x86 CPU.

Hopefully you have a x86-64 version of the library as well.


You may want to check video cards stories, it seems either your
device is useful and it _will_ be reverse engineered and
eventually a open-source driver will be written, or your device
isn't useful and nobody will bother.

I both cases open-source from start is a clear win.
-- 
Krzysztof Halasa
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