Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 14:02:25 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Michael Bender <Michael.Bender@Sun.COM>
Cc: s.schmidt@avm.de, kkeil@suse.de, libusb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org,
       opensuse-factory@opensuse.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] Re: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:09:52PM -0800, Michael Bender wrote:
> (Since this came to me via the libusb list, and we've kind of
> gone past libusb-specific-related discussion, I thought I'd
> add another question to the thread).
> 
> What's the rationale behind the dichotomy between userspace
> and kernel licensing models?

Hm, how about starting a new thread for this?  As it's way outside the
scope of this one, _and_ it's pretty much off-topic for all of these
lists :)

As for the rationale, see the lkml archives for details.

thanks,

greg k-h
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