Re: [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] User-space requirements for accelerator drivers

Josh Triplett
2021-09-10T23:45:22Z

On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 12:52:14AM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> On media, enforcing userspace to always be open source would
> have been very bad, as it would prevent several videoconferencing
> software to exist on Linux.

I don't think we should enforce that all userspace users of an interface
be Open Source. I do think we should enforce that *some* userspace user
of an interface be Open Source before we add the interface.