Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751753AbWLOK0Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:26:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751761AbWLOK0Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:26:24 -0500 Received: from mailgw1.uni-kl.de ([131.246.120.220]:55697 "EHLO mailgw1.uni-kl.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751753AbWLOK0X (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:26:23 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 668 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:26:22 EST Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:13:30 +0100 From: Eduard Bloch To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: Scott Preece , Chris Wedgwood , Eric Sandeen , Christoph Hellwig , Linus Torvalds , Jeff Garzik , Greg KH , Jonathan Corbet , Andrew Morton , Martin Bligh , "Michael K. Edwards" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Message-ID: <20061215101330.GA15243@debian> References: <458171C1.3070400@garzik.org> <20061214170841.GA11196@tuatara.stupidest.org> <20061214173827.GC3452@infradead.org> <20061214175253.GB12498@tuatara.stupidest.org> <458194B8.1090309@sandeen.net> <20061214183956.GA13692@tuatara.stupidest.org> <7b69d1470612141142k63cc7d11l89c0a7f26acc631a@mail.gmail.com> <4581A75C.9020509@wolfmountaingroup.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4581A75C.9020509@wolfmountaingroup.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1202 Lines: 30 #include * Jeff V. Merkey [Thu, Dec 14 2006, 12:34:52PM]: > > This whole effort is pointless. This is the same kind of crap MICROSOFT > DOES to create incompatibilities Just my 0.02? - one of the things I wonder about is why eg. class* interfaces has been replaced with something "protected" by GPL enforcing macros. What is the point? Nobody wins. The access to the new fine-grained system has been restricted for users, and distributors (yes, I maintain a such module) have to work around this in-kernel restriction and create cludges. Greg (and others from the "every touch of my bits is a derivation of it and I need to protect it" party) - what are you thinking? Do you seriously think that such restrictions would help anyone? IMO protecting the access to interfaces is an utterly stupid idea in the free software world. Eduard. -- Geht 'n Mantafahrer zum Manta-Treffen. Fragt: F?hrt hier wer Manta -- #Debian.DE - 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/