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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Michael Bender <Michael.Bender@Sun.COM>
Cc: s.schmidt@avm.de, kkeil@suse.de,
	libusb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org,
	opensuse-factory@opensuse.org, torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [Libusb-devel] Re: 2.6.16 serious consequences / GPL_EXPORT_SYMBOL / USB drivers of major vendor excluded
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 14:02:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306220225.GA20265@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <440CA520.8070507@sun.com>

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 01:09:52PM -0800, Michael Bender wrote:
> (Since this came to me via the libusb list, and we've kind of
> gone past libusb-specific-related discussion, I thought I'd
> add another question to the thread).
> 
> What's the rationale behind the dichotomy between userspace
> and kernel licensing models?

Hm, how about starting a new thread for this?  As it's way outside the
scope of this one, _and_ it's pretty much off-topic for all of these
lists :)

As for the rationale, see the lkml archives for details.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-06 22:02 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
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 [this message]
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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