Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261207AbUJ3P1R (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:27:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261203AbUJ3P0Y (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:26:24 -0400 Received: from mid-1.inet.it ([213.92.5.18]:46021 "EHLO mid-1.inet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261229AbUJ3OpY (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:45:24 -0400 From: Fabio Coatti Organization: FerraraLUG To: Greg KH Subject: Re: 2.6.10-mm1, class_simple_* and GPL addition Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:44:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Norbert Preining , Andrew Morton References: <20041027135052.GE32199@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <200410272012.44361.dtor_core@ameritech.net> <20041029205505.GB30638@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20041029205505.GB30638@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410301644.33997.cova@ferrara.linux.it> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1643 Lines: 35 Alle 22:55, venerd? 29 ottobre 2004, Greg KH ha scritto: > > So we can change things, little things like this can help everyone out, > even if I'm going to get a ton of nvidia user hate mail directed to me > after the next kernel comes out... > > Remember, binary kernel modules are a leach on our community. I'm one of the users biten by this change, and I can undestand your reason; anyway from my standpoint the situation is that a change that has no technical motivation (at least to my knowledge) is going to remove an interface that until now was available, and prevents me to use my card with new kernels; this is too similar to some closed souce companies behaviour. No big deal, I can live with that, but if this is the right way to handle that interface, why this is enforced only now and not from the very first time? Granted that you have all the rights to do that, may I ask if this is not in contrast with is stated in this post? http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.2/0369.html I understand all your motivation,and I agree with most of them, but I'm asking if this is the right way to handle this GPL issue... -- Fabio Coatti http://members.ferrara.linux.it/cova Ferrara Linux Users Group http://ferrara.linux.it GnuPG fp:9765 A5B6 6843 17BC A646 BE8C FA56 373A 5374 C703 Old SysOps never die... they simply forget their password. - 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/