Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 15:13:25 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first
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Hi!

> > Which we know in practice they won't. They'll sit on fixes (often
> > security fixes) and tweak and add private copies of features. In turn the
> > Linux one could then only keep up by adding features itself - which would
> > have to be GPL to stop the same abuse continuing.
> > 
> > It's a nice idea but the corporations exist to make money and adding
> > proprietary custom stack add-ons is clearly a good move on their part to
> > do that.
> 
> Hence my recommendation that if someone is going to do the work to
> create a 802.11 layer that has shims that work on multiple operating
> systems, it be GPL with explicit exceptions to allow said layer to
> work on legacy operating systems like QNX, et. al.  That way it forces

Is the exception even neccessary? GPL has explicit permission to link
against non-GPL 'system' and 'compiler' libraries --which seems to be
exactly this.

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