Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751915AbXBPKiM (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:38:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751912AbXBPKiM (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:38:12 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:42559 "EHLO ns.firmix.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751915AbXBPKiL (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:38:11 -0500 Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: v j Cc: Trent Waddington , David Lang , Scott Preece , Miguel Ojeda , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <9b3a62ab0702152225m3893318by95cb8b260c74bfc2@mail.gmail.com> References: <9b3a62ab0702142115m4ea7d2c0m6869eb64ef3ee14e@mail.gmail.com> <20070215061149.GE15654@redhat.com> <9b3a62ab0702142227j19386132s870a0e745cfbb8d1@mail.gmail.com> <20070215165339.GB5285@thunk.org> <9b3a62ab0702151020k5bd0e4c9w763e1b01288ccc4f@mail.gmail.com> <653402b90702151102n3a3e0435r837e2191de79b2b@mail.gmail.com> <7b69d1470702151712x685f3e0eqf6198f9bb7f2394e@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702152148p57db8b1dgd42b1c6fb15dccbb@mail.gmail.com> <3d57814d0702152157n461a9f0cta0a0c20e9a592d83@mail.gmail.com> <9b3a62ab0702152225m3893318by95cb8b260c74bfc2@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Firmix software GmbH Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 11:38:05 +0100 Message-Id: <1171622285.23981.20.camel@tara.firmix.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Firmix-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.56 on ns.firmix.at X-Firmix-Spam-Score: -2.417 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Firmix-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.417 required=5 X-Spam-Score: -2.417 () AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1019 Lines: 26 On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 22:25 -0800, v j wrote: [...] > No, just that the trend is disturbing. If enough Kernel Developers > choose to write their Software in a way that prevents others from > using it freely, then that is troubling. Especially when these Kernel You can use it freely - your definitions of "free" and "closed" are broken (at least on LKML). > Developers are substituting existing interfaces in the Kernel with > ones that are NEW and require specific licenses. That claimed "specific license" is the very same license that the rest of the kernel has since day 1. So what? Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - 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/