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

From: Gilles Espinasse
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 02:27:47 EST



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Engelhardt" <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Gilles Espinasse" <g.esp@xxxxxxx>
Cc: <gregkh@xxxxxxx>; <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:14 PM
Subject: RE: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only


>
> On Feb 1 2008 15:45, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> >..
...
> >
> >There is the unicorn usb adsl modem driver (STM unicorn chip).
> >http://www.bewan.com/bewan/drivers/A1012-A1006-A904-A888-A983-0.9.3.tgz
> >There is some sources and a binary blob to be linked.
> >
> >The only things I know from the binary blob is that sources should be 150
000
> >lines of C++.
>
> It's 63 C++ files actually (wow, that even beats the blob-iness of
nvidia!)
> and a few files look rather empty. Their source would rather benefit
> from getting a review on LKML.
>
Just for curiosity, how could you know the number of sources files without
the sources of the blob?
Or you have them...?

Gilles

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