Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754643AbYA1ILf (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:11:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751622AbYA1IL2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:11:28 -0500 Received: from smtprelay09.ispgateway.de ([80.67.29.23]:37742 "EHLO smtprelay09.ispgateway.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750776AbYA1IL1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 03:11:27 -0500 Message-ID: <479D8E9C.5030808@ladisch.de> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:13:16 +0100 From: Clemens Ladisch User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Greg KH CC: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only References: <20080125180232.GA4613@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20080125180232.GA4613@kroah.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Df-Sender: 006495 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 637 Lines: 18 Greg KH wrote: > Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed > there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the > GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision. > > There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch > should cause no problems. There are the commercial OpenSound drivers. Regards, Clemens -- 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/