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

Diego Zuccato
2008-02-07T08:07:49Z

Christer Weinigel ha scritto:

> I think it is perfectly within their rights to do so. I think it's
> kind of silly to try to hide it, if someone wants to boost the maximum
> transmit power, they're going to hack the firmware anyway. But if it
> makes Intel happy, well... :-)
And break the HW :-) Actually, they could be happier, since then you
have to buy another...

[...]
> preliminary go ahead from the bosses to provide documentation under an
> NDA to Linux developers that would like to write GPL drivers for it. I
[...]
Urgh... I don't think NDAs and Open Source mix well... Are you sure your
bosses KNOW Linux and the OS in general? :-)

BYtE,
Diego.