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Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:07:38 +0100
From: Diego Zuccato <diego@otello.alma.unibo.it>
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To: Christer Weinigel <christer@weinigel.se>
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       David Newall <davidn@davidnewall.com>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
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Christer Weinigel ha scritto:

> I think it is perfectly within their rights to do so.  I think it's
> kind of silly to try to hide it, if someone wants to boost the maximum
> transmit power, they're going to hack the firmware anyway.  But if it
> makes Intel happy, well... :-)
And break the HW :-) Actually, they could be happier, since then you 
have to buy another...

[...]
> preliminary go ahead from the bosses to provide documentation under an
> NDA to Linux developers that would like to write GPL drivers for it.  I
[...]
Urgh... I don't think NDAs and Open Source mix well... Are you sure your 
bosses KNOW Linux and the OS in general? :-)

BYtE,
  Diego.
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