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

[Adrian Bunk]

On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:07:38AM +0100, Diego Zuccato wrote:
> Christer Weinigel ha scritto:
>...
> [...]
>> 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? :-)

Developing GPL'ed Linux drivers with an NDA on the documentation has 
been done in hundreds of cases.

It's less nice than having free documentation but not a problem.

> BYtE,
>  Diego.

cu
Adrian

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