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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:13:05 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080128161305.GB8790@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <479DB203.2050809@panasas.com>

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 12:44:19PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 25 2008 at 20:02 +0200, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > FYI, this is a patch that will be sent out in the next round to Linus
> > for inclusion in 2.6.25.
> > 
> > If anyone has any objections about it, please let me know.
> 
> What about ndiswrapper and its windows binaries
> are they covered through ndiswrapper by GPL?
> (Unfortunately I use them, but less and less)

Sorry, but no, they are not going to work, due to the way that
ndiswrapper is marked by the kernel module loader.

Again, you should be getting a kernel warning every time you try to use
a USB function today.

What USB drivers for wireless devices are not yet supported by Linux
becides the Marvell-based ones (which some of us are actively working
on...)?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-28 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 157+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-25 18:02 [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only Greg KH
2008-01-28  8:13 ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-01-28  8:57   ` Greg KH
2008-01-28  9:58     ` Clemens Ladisch
2008-01-28 16:13       ` Greg KH
2008-01-28 10:44 ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-28 16:13   ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-01-28 16:44     ` Boaz Harrosh
2008-01-28 16:52       ` Greg KH
2008-01-28 21:49 ` TimC
2008-02-02 11:37 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-02 19:19   ` Greg KH
2008-02-03 11:48     ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-03 14:35       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-03 17:04         ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-03 23:15           ` Greg KH
2008-02-05 23:14             ` David Newall
2008-02-05 23:17               ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 12:50                 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:06                   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 14:32                     ` David Newall
2008-02-05 23:29               ` Greg KH
2008-02-07 12:52                 ` David Newall
2008-02-05 23:34               ` Chris Friesen
2008-02-06 21:04                 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-07  1:36                   ` David Schwartz
2008-02-07 13:26                   ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:15                     ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 15:02                       ` David Newall
2008-02-07 15:07                         ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 16:31                           ` David Newall
2008-02-08  0:18                     ` David Schwartz
2008-02-07 13:06                 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:12                   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 14:55                     ` David Newall
2008-02-07 15:01                       ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 16:19                         ` David Newall
2008-02-07 22:51                     ` Hannu Savolainen
2008-02-07 23:17                       ` Greg KH
2008-02-03 15:07     ` David Newall
2008-02-04 10:21       ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-04 19:18         ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-04 21:38           ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-06 20:34             ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-06 20:54               ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2008-02-07 13:19                 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:06                   ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2008-02-07 14:31                     ` David Newall
2008-02-07 16:13                       ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2008-02-07 16:22                         ` Dave Higton
2008-02-07 16:50                         ` David Newall
2008-02-07 17:49                           ` Hans-Jürgen Koch
2008-02-08  2:50                             ` David Newall
2008-02-09 15:13                             ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-09 15:41                               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-09 16:50                                 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-09 17:29                                   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-06 20:55               ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-06 20:52                 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 13:47                   ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:26                     ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 15:16                       ` David Newall
2008-02-06 21:29                 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-07  8:07                   ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07 15:05                     ` Adrian Bunk
2008-02-07 19:27                     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-07 13:21                 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 19:35                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-07 13:16               ` David Newall
2008-02-05  7:49           ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-05 23:25         ` David Newall
2008-02-05 23:25           ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 13:00             ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:10               ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 14:48                 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:58                   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 16:03                     ` David Newall
2008-02-07 18:22                       ` Alan Cox
2008-02-08  2:55                         ` David Newall
2008-02-08 11:29                           ` Alan Cox
2008-02-08 16:34                             ` David Newall
2008-02-07  8:31           ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07 13:35             ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:25               ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07 15:13                 ` David Newall
2008-02-08  8:48                   ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07 19:34               ` Lee Mathers
2008-02-08  8:55                 ` Diego Zuccato
2008-02-08 11:38                   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-05  9:55       ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-02-05 11:18         ` David Newall
2008-02-05 12:32           ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2008-02-10 15:19       ` Bauke Jan Douma
2008-02-03 15:12     ` David Newall
2008-02-03 15:43       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-03 16:06         ` David Newall
2008-02-03 16:48           ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-05 11:33             ` David Newall
2008-02-05 19:43               ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-07 13:41                 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 19:05                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-08  3:57                     ` David Newall
2008-02-08  9:15                       ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-08 18:40                         ` David Newall
2008-02-08 19:08                           ` David Newall
2008-02-08 19:23                             ` David Newall
2008-02-08 19:36                             ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-08 21:36                               ` Alan Cox
2008-02-08 23:27                                 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-08 19:13                           ` Greg KH
2008-02-08 19:42                             ` David Newall
2008-02-08 23:41                           ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-10  2:01                             ` David Schwartz
2008-02-10  4:50                               ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-10  5:07                                 ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-10  5:43                                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-10  6:18                                     ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-10 11:20                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-10 13:30                                     ` Daniel Hazelton
2008-02-10 13:45                                       ` Olof Johansson
2008-02-12 18:02                                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-12 18:04                                   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-09 13:40                           ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-08 20:21                         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-08 23:30                           ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-03 17:13           ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-05 11:39             ` David Newall
2008-02-05 11:46               ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-06 21:12                 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-06 21:48                   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-02-07  6:22                   ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-07 13:31                     ` David Newall
2008-02-07 13:47                       ` Pekka Enberg
2008-02-05 12:27               ` Alan Cox
2008-02-05 20:03               ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-05 20:35                 ` Chris Friesen
2008-02-05 21:12                   ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-02-07 12:41                     ` David Newall
2008-02-07 13:37                   ` David Newall
2008-02-07 13:45                 ` David Newall
2008-02-07 14:28                   ` Alan Cox
2008-02-07 15:39                     ` David Newall
2008-02-05 20:34               ` Greg KH
2008-02-06 20:14                 ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-06 20:28                   ` Greg KH
2008-02-06 21:03                     ` Christer Weinigel
2008-02-07 13:15                     ` David Newall
2008-02-07 13:39                 ` David Newall
2008-02-06 20:43 ` Jon Smirl
2008-02-06 21:23   ` Greg KH
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-02-01 14:45 Gilles Espinasse
2008-02-01 17:29 ` Greg KH
2008-02-06 21:14 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-02-07  7:30   ` Gilles Espinasse
2008-02-03 11:17 Gilles Espinasse
2008-02-04 11:43 Matthew
2008-02-04 15:04 ` Greg KH

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