Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423043AbWLUTY6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:24:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423048AbWLUTY6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:24:58 -0500 Received: from neopsis.com ([213.239.204.14]:33832 "EHLO matterhorn.dbservice.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423043AbWLUTY5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:24:57 -0500 Message-ID: <458AE3B7.8080302@dbservice.com> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 19:42:47 +0000 From: Tomas Carnecky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b1 (X11/20061212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Porter CC: Erik Mouw , Scott Preece , "Eric W. Biederman" , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Binary Drivers References: <20061215220117.GA24819@martell.zuzino.mipt.ru> <4583527D.4000903@dbservice.com> <7b69d1470612210833k79c93617nba96dbc717113723@mail.gmail.com> <20061221174346.GN3073@harddisk-recovery.com> <458ADC37.9070608@dbservice.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Neopsis-MailScanner-Information: Neopsis MailScanner using ClamAV and Spaassassin X-Neopsis-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Neopsis-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-2.311, required 5, autolearn=spam, AWL 0.15, BAYES_00 -2.60, FORGED_RCVD_HELO 0.14) X-MailScanner-From: tom@dbservice.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 601 Lines: 14 James Porter wrote: > I'm pretty sure Linus has decided, basically he said the patches to > prevent non-gpl binary drivers are not going into his tree unless every > other tree adopts it. Of course the few supporting won't get off their > high horse and try it on a different tree. .. unfortunately, that doesn't make the legal status any clearer. tom - 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/