Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932451AbWHHANN (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:13:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932452AbWHHANN (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:13:13 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:48552 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932451AbWHHANN (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Aug 2006 20:13:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 02:12:55 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Zachary Amsden 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 Message-ID: <20060808001255.GQ2759@elf.ucw.cz> References: <44D1CC7D.4010600@vmware.com> <44D217A7.9020608@redhat.com> <44D24236.305@vmware.com> <20060805104507.GA4506@ucw.cz> <44D67109.6020605@vmware.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44D67109.6020605@vmware.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1449 Lines: 30 On Sun 2006-08-06 15:45:29, Zachary Amsden wrote: > 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. Well, I guess we'd like VMI to be buildable in normal kernel build tools ... and at that point, open sourcing it should be _really_ easy. And we'd prefer legal decisions not to influence technical ones. Maybe we will decide to use binary interface after all, but seeing GPLed, easily-buildable interface, first, means we can look at both solutions and decide which one is better. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/