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

Greg KH
2008-01-28T16:16:54Z

On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:58:55AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> > 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?
>
> http://www.opensound.com/
>
> > 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.)
>
> They aren't used widely (with Linux), and AFAIK the USB driver doesn't
> have anything to favor it over the ALSA driver.

Ok, then we don't have any issues :)

thanks,

greg k-h