Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:13:30 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:58:55AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > What are they?  Do you have a link to them?
> 
> http://www.opensound.com/
> 
> > And why have I not heard from any user of them for the past two years
> > (we have had a kernel warning for over 2 years for this issue.)
> 
> They aren't used widely (with Linux), and AFAIK the USB driver doesn't
> have anything to favor it over the ALSA driver.

Ok, then we don't have any issues :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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