Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932637AbYBGPFg (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:05:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756992AbYBGPEy (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:04:54 -0500 Received: from smtp4.pp.htv.fi ([213.243.153.38]:51907 "EHLO smtp4.pp.htv.fi" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756782AbYBGPEw (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:04:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 17:05:03 +0200 From: Adrian Bunk To: Diego Zuccato Cc: Christer Weinigel , Marcel Holtmann , David Newall , Greg KH , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only Message-ID: <20080207150503.GC7198@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi> References: <20080202123710.42df1aa0@weinigel.se> <20080202191930.GA19826@kroah.com> <47A5D895.20300@davidnewall.com> <47A6E742.80408@otello.alma.unibo.it> <47A764ED.8030605@weinigel.se> <1202161091.15090.84.camel@violet> <20080206213449.6614efea@weinigel.se> <1202331345.15090.235.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <20080206222937.2aa69a2e@weinigel.se> <47AABC4A.7010105@otello.alma.unibo.it> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47AABC4A.7010105@otello.alma.unibo.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17+20080114 (2008-01-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1080 Lines: 33 On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:07:38AM +0100, Diego Zuccato wrote: > Christer Weinigel ha scritto: >... > [...] >> 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? :-) Developing GPL'ed Linux drivers with an NDA on the documentation has been done in hundreds of cases. It's less nice than having free documentation but not a problem. > BYtE, > Diego. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed -- 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/