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

Greg KH
2008-01-28T08:54:38Z

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed
> > there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the
> > GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision.
> >
> > There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch
> > should cause no problems.
>
> There are the commercial OpenSound drivers.

What are they? Do you have a link to them? And why have I not heard
from any user of them for the past two years (we have had a kernel
warning for over 2 years for this issue.)

thanks,

greg k-h