Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only

Greg KH
2008-02-06T20:30:35Z

On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:14:48PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:34:18 -0800
> Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
>
> > In the end, it's up to the copyright holders to enforce the license.
> > And as I have stated in the past, a number of them have made public
> > statements as to what they think about this issue. And it corresponds
> > exactly with what Marcel has stated above.
> >
> > So if you wish to violate the copyright of others, you take the risk
> > that you might be caught and punished, something that you and your
> > legal council needs to take into account.
>
> So when do you sue Nvidia, ATI, Atheros, Broadcom[1],
> M-Systems/Sandisk[2] or Nokia? All those companies distribute binary
> drivers for Linux without providing source code?

How do you know that such legal action isn't already happening?

greg k-h