From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932074AbWLNK2T (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:28:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751917AbWLNK2T (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:28:19 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:50543 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751851AbWLNK2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:28:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:36:13 +0000 From: Alan To: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet) Cc: Greg KH , Andrew Morton , Martin Bligh , "Michael K. Edwards" , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] Message-ID: <20061214103613.49965c91@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <22299.1166057009@lwn.net> References: <20061214003246.GA12162@suse.de> <22299.1166057009@lwn.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.6.0 (GTK+ 2.8.20; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > 2008? I bet a lot of people would read the above to say that their > system will just drop dead of a New Year's hangover, and they'll freak. > I wouldn't want to be the one getting all the email at that point... I wouldn't worry. Everyone will have patched it back out again by then, or made their driver lie about the license. Both of which make the problem worse not better when it comes to debugging. Alan