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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: s.schmidt@avm.de
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, opensuse-factory@opensuse.org,
	kkeil@suse.de
Subject: Re: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded
Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 22:50:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060203225049.GA2420@ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF7A130C3D.76EBAB24-ONC125710A.003AC847-C125710A.005A1B7D@avm.de>

Hi!

> consequences
> Because of the GPL_EXPORT declaration it is no longer possible to build and
> run non-GPL loadable drivers for USB devices. We´ve put a lot of energy
> into providing the open source community with Linux drivers for nearly all

Last time I checked, it was easy to write usb drivers in userspace.

							Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-04 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200601200904.00389.dazzle.digital@gmail.com>
2006-02-03 16:24 ` 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded s.schmidt
2006-02-03 22:50   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-02-04 16:27   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-02-04 19:24     ` Jan Kiszka
2006-02-09 15:52       ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-05 20:53   ` Greg KH
2006-02-16 14:24     ` Re[2]: " s.schmidt
2006-02-16 14:35       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-02-16 19:49       ` [opensuse-factory] " Robert Schiele
2006-02-16 22:09       ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2006-02-16 22:51         ` Karsten Keil
2006-02-17 23:00       ` Greg KH
2006-02-19 14:34         ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2006-03-06 12:47         ` Re[2]: " s.schmidt
2006-03-06 17:05           ` Greg KH
2006-03-06 21:09             ` [Libusb-devel] " Michael Bender
2006-03-06 22:02               ` Greg KH
2006-03-07  7:42           ` [opensuse-factory] Re[2]: " Silviu Marin-Caea
2006-03-07 22:10             ` Lee Revell
2006-03-07 23:37               ` Matthias Andree
2006-03-08  0:55                 ` Lee Revell
2006-03-08  1:39                   ` Douglas McNaught
2006-02-18  2:42       ` Lee Revell
2006-02-19  4:57       ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2006-02-19 17:02         ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-20  3:11           ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2006-02-20  6:58             ` Steven Rostedt
2006-02-19 16:25       ` Re[2]: " Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-19  3:09     ` Anton Blanchard
2006-02-19  3:20       ` Greg KH

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