Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265119AbUD3PMc (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:12:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265218AbUD3PMc (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:12:32 -0400 Received: from userel174.dsl.pipex.com ([62.188.199.174]:48774 "EHLO einstein.homenet") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265119AbUD3PMb (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Apr 2004 11:12:31 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 16:06:33 +0100 (BST) From: Tigran Aivazian X-X-Sender: tigran@einstein.homenet To: Jeff Garzik cc: Marc Boucher , Sean Estabrooks , , , , , , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license In-Reply-To: <40920881.6070300@pobox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1722 Lines: 36 On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > DriverLoader significantly lowers that cost, while not providing an open > source solution at all. Ah, I see.... that makes a HUGE difference. Now I understand what the fuss is all about. So, that is why everyone jumped on Marc Boucher's throat trying to annihilate, humiliate, frighten by unsubstantiated allegations and generally grind him into tiny specks of dust, at the same time falsely pretending that all the fuss was only about that silly '\0' byte they left in their license string (I wish they knew better not to do that --- there are millions of ways to achieve what they want). Why didn't someone say that from the beginning, that what he (Marc Boucher's company) is doing was to lower the cost of avoiding to support the native Linux drivers and that is certainly damaging to us, though we can't really do anything about it because it is fair and perfectly legal. In fact, the only thing we can do is to make their life harder (i.e. by being unfair) and reduce the number of GPL-exported symbols to almost nothing. Imho, it is best when people honestly state what the goal and the reasons of debate are, instead of unacceptable and unfair techniques such as lying about GPL directory content etc. I think you (Jeff) have pointed out the key thing and it explained everything very nicely (at least to me, it did). Thank you. I always found your emails informative and to the point :) Kind regards Tigran - 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/