Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763553AbXHGTUz (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:20:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752991AbXHGTUr (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:20:47 -0400 Received: from khc.piap.pl ([195.187.100.11]:53187 "EHLO khc.piap.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752726AbXHGTUq (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:20:46 -0400 To: "Nathan Williams" Cc: linux-kernel Subject: Re: MODULE_LICENSE usage References: From: Krzysztof Halasa Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:20:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Nathan Williams's message of "Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:29:46 +1000") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1060 Lines: 28 "Nathan Williams" writes: > The binary blob is run in the kernel. I wasn't aware of any > completely open-source drivers for ADSL modems, mine is a PCI ADSL > modem. People around here use Alcatel/Thomson "Speedtouch" and Sagem "Fast" USB ADSLs. Linux has open-source drivers for both. USB seems like an advantage in this case, too - you can connect to any machine including non-PCI small network storage servers with non-x86 CPU. Hopefully you have a x86-64 version of the library as well. You may want to check video cards stories, it seems either your device is useful and it _will_ be reverse engineered and eventually a open-source driver will be written, or your device isn't useful and nobody will bother. I both cases open-source from start is a clear win. -- Krzysztof Halasa - 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/