From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>,
Magnus Wendt <magnus.wendt@gmail.com>,
Luc Verhaegen <libv@skynet.be>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
dri-devel <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 16:37:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100704153708.GA21516@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <131ED6E6-9BAB-4BAC-A795-889C765C35F6@mit.edu>
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 07:03:22AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> We have sources to our web browsers but not to the a number of the
> various web services that the browsers talk to (GMail, AIM, Gmane,
> Yahoo Finance, Google Search, etc.).
>
> And we have the sources to the Intel wireless drivers, but not to the
> firmware, and that's not necessarily considered a horrendous thing.
But we did consider it a horrendous thing when we had the source to a
Intel wireless driver but not the source to the usercode regulatory
daemon it required. Sufficiently horrendous not to merge the driver.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-04 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-01 22:10 Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 22:36 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 22:51 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 22:57 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-01 23:29 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-01 23:37 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 0:08 ` Daniel Walker
2010-07-02 0:13 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 0:18 ` Saravana Kannan
[not found] ` <AANLkTilsqmCZwLUNJhvDKkralHQZzlRV3ZxaIGbt9-xB@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <AANLkTinvzJrx4AqgWYuMg66Djf-snouLQZE7wI9Bu0Kv@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-02 0:42 ` Timothy Meade
2010-07-02 2:46 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 3:01 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-02 4:54 ` Howard Chu
2010-07-02 6:52 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-14 13:24 ` Pavel Machek
2010-07-16 0:42 ` Tim HRM
2010-07-01 23:51 ` Piotr Gluszenia Slawinski
2010-07-02 1:27 ` Corbin Simpson
2010-07-02 7:48 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-02 9:58 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-07-02 10:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-07-02 11:12 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-07-02 11:26 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 10:23 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 11:10 ` Luc Verhaegen
2010-07-02 11:53 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 12:07 ` "C. Bergström"
2010-07-02 14:45 ` Xavier Bestel
2010-07-02 15:03 ` "C. Bergström"
[not found] ` <AANLkTinZXHi_mbmsX1HTzbMNjQx7j0rbEfTKSoz-02CF@mail.gmail.com>
2010-07-04 7:27 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-04 11:03 ` Theodore Tso
2010-07-04 15:37 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2010-07-04 20:05 ` Dave Airlie
2010-07-02 14:01 ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-07-03 0:41 ` Ian Romanick
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