Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263205AbTEGONM (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 10:13:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263206AbTEGONM (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 10:13:12 -0400 Received: from h80ad2763.async.vt.edu ([128.173.39.99]:31137 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263205AbTEGONL (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 May 2003 10:13:11 -0400 Message-Id: <200305071425.h47EPYxg013048@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Cc: Jamie Lokier , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Using GPL'd Linux drivers with non-GPL, binary-only kernel In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 May 2003 02:21:25 MDT." From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <20030506164252.GA5125@mail.jlokier.co.uk> <20030506215552.GA6284@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-940506551P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 10:25:34 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1182 Lines: 34 --==_Exmh_-940506551P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Wed, 07 May 2003 02:21:25 MDT, Eric W. Biederman said: > Beyond that the whole closed thing is a turn-off. Which is likely to > reduce interest in your research OS and get you no free feedback on > the weird situations. The target kernel doesn't actually *have* to be closed. What if the kernel running the Linux driver was some open-but-incompatible licence? I'll just pause to point out that the single most successful TCP stack has to be the BSD one - which started off as DARPA-funded research, and got lots of feedback in spite of its license. --==_Exmh_-940506551P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE+uRddcC3lWbTT17ARAsBEAKDPVUSkcOmFN61kDkFfwFEo8odQOACgs34L B8TeI/0C31q+k1jwPxmnLP8= =EjyB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-940506551P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/