Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965592AbXBOOy1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:54:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965595AbXBOOy1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:54:27 -0500 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.186]:38670 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965592AbXBOOy0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 09:54:26 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mxKaAlFQXDQbRl7i88qevQwNkPmni7MZSUb2eDa0JAmxUSnKvsYzVopvXkQsfjQfoy/Au1EcrPYFjRluJqNCJrAaxDZPBIQQpVrd1sOxXo0soLO3bh/L2jCQeujJjaZCCGnmfpvc/HBWV3NVB1AfqHZjUnPlBENepfLic2H+56s= Message-ID: <1a297b360702150654q796fbc38m72e3e454ffd44c0e@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:54:24 +0400 From: "Manu Abraham" To: "linux-os (Dick Johnson)" Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers Cc: Mws , "v j" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9b3a62ab0702142115m4ea7d2c0m6869eb64ef3ee14e@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702142116n4069e16cl1bc8f546f41d935@mail.gmail.com> <200702151254.39058.mws@twisted-brains.org> <1a297b360702150451n3dca1140ra6827cfde020eed5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1006 Lines: 27 On 2/15/07, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > I don't think of GPL as a religion, only as an experiment > that has run amok. > The point of GPL, is that even if the vendor stopped supporting, you could fix the device driver by yourself. This is really happening, vendors do sell hardware with broken drivers and make the suers cry out loudly. At the mercy of the vendor. (This has happened and is still happening) This is exactly the whole point about GPL. If you think otherwise, you are just one of the vendors trying to force your hopeless driver to clueless users. So, IMO when someone says binary only modules are the way, i wouldn't bite the line. I don't think this is a religion, but a freedom to use what you want. HTH, manu - 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/