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

Matthew
2008-02-04T11:43:23Z

Hi everybody,

>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.

hm, I'm not sure, but will your patch make Samsung's Unified Linux
Driver for printing & scanning stop working?
http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/downloadfile/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=DE&CttFileID=801111&CDCttType=DR&ModelType=N&ModelName=SCX-4521F&VPath=DR/200707/20070720165133984_UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz

another Manufacturer / Candidate I'm worrying about is Brother:
http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html
Brother is providing opensource cups drivers (kudos to the developers
@ Brother for that!), the sane-drivers however seem to be closed
source, will those work ?

I'm no developer, just a heavy user ;) so unfortunately I can't tell
whether those drivers are dependent on being NOT GPL,
if your patch will find its inclusion into Linus' mainline-tree,
there's still the possibility to revert that patch, right ? (freedom
of doing with the code what I need to)

Many thanks in advance & thanks a lot for your work :)

Mat