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

Diego Zuccato
2008-02-08T08:56:17Z

Lee Mathers ha scritto:

> Now we have hardware ASIC that depend on the most part a (dll in
> windows) or .ko .o file under linux to provide the entire instruction
> set. Think Winmodems, Winprinters etc....

Well, winmodem case is the only I could *almost* understand
closed-source drivers: the algorithms used *are* the modem. It's not a
simple firmware upload.
What I really don't understand are graphic cards producers... If what
they say about the card is true, then there's no "advanced" algorithm in
the driver, just (at most) a firmware uploader (that's better suited
off-kernel anyway)...

Bohf!

BYtE,
Diego.