Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750751AbWHFWpb (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:45:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750752AbWHFWpb (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:45:31 -0400 Received: from mailout1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.130]:9368 "EHLO mailout1.vmware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750751AbWHFWpa (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Aug 2006 18:45:30 -0400 Message-ID: <44D67109.6020605@vmware.com> Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2006 15:45:29 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek Cc: Rik van Riel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , greg@kroah.com, Andrew Morton , Christoph Hellwig , Rusty Russell , Jack Lo Subject: Re: A proposal - binary References: <44D1CC7D.4010600@vmware.com> <44D217A7.9020608@redhat.com> <44D24236.305@vmware.com> <20060805104507.GA4506@ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20060805104507.GA4506@ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 853 Lines: 19 Pavel Machek wrote: > ...it should be very easy to opensource simple 'something' layer. If > it is so complex it is 'hard' to opensource, it is missdesigned, > anyway... so fix the design. > It's not a design issue - it's a legal issue at this point, and one that I'm not qualified to come up with a good answer for. The biggest technical issue I think for open sourcing the VMI, is that it is not part of the kernel, but stand alone firmware with a rather bizarre build environment, so the code alone is not sufficient to allow it to be open sourced, but this is not a hard problem to solve. Zach - 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/