Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:00:02 +0200 (CEST)
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Position Statement on Linux Kernel Modules
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008, Greg KH wrote:

> As part of the Linux Foundation Technical board, we confront the issue
> of closed source Linux kernel modules all the time, and we wanted to do
> something that could be seen as a general "public statement" about them
> that is easy to understand and point to when people have questions.
>
> So, after working on this for a while, and asking some of the other
> major contributors and maintainers of the kernel, what we have is below.
>
> There is also a site at:
> 	http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Device_driver_statement

Just a sidenote: It would probably be nice to have this linked from the 
main LF page (News?), I don't seem to see it there ... ?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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