Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750884AbXBVNMv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:12:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751592AbXBVNMv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:12:51 -0500 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:49459 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-FAIL-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750884AbXBVNMv (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:12:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:14:34 +0000 From: Alan To: "Michael K. Edwards" Cc: "D. Hazelton" , "David Lang" , davids@webmaster.com, "v j" , trent.waddington@gmail.com, "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" , "Neil Brown" Subject: Re: GPL vs non-GPL device drivers Message-ID: <20070222141434.3beb8a94@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <3d57814d0702191458l1021caeyaefd7775398c5f2a@mail.gmail.com> <200702212030.58317.dhazelton@enter.net> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.7.2 (GTK+ 2.10.8; i386-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: 598 Lines: 13 > compiler people caught on to the economic opportunity. Ever pay $5K > for a CD full of GNU binaries for a commercial UNIX? I did, after No because I just downloaded them. Much easier and since they are GPL I was allowed to do so, then rebuilt them all which took about 30 minutes of brain time and a day of CPU time. - 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/