Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751764AbWLMXrX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:47:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751766AbWLMXrX (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:47:23 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48762 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751764AbWLMXrW (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:47:22 -0500 Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:55:00 +0000 From: Alan To: "Michael K. Edwards" Cc: "Andrew Morton" , "Martin Bligh" , "Greg KH" , "Linus Torvalds" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19 Message-ID: <20061213235500.1764d85e@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: References: <20061213195226.GA6736@kroah.com> <20061213210219.GA9410@suse.de> <45807182.1060408@mbligh.org> <20061213134721.d8ff8c11.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 835 Lines: 18 > IIRC, Linus has deliberately and explicitly estopped himself from > claiming that loading a binary-only driver is a GPL violation. Do you He only owns a small amount of the code. Furthermore he imported third party GPL code using the license as sole permission. So he may have dug a personal hole but many of the rest of us have been repeatedly saying whenever he said that - that we do not agree. The FSF has always said binary modules are wrong and there is FSF code imported into the kernel by Linus on license only grounds. Whether it is a good idea is a different question. Alan. - 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/