From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757808Ab0GDPhX (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jul 2010 11:37:23 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:42143 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757602Ab0GDPhW (ORCPT ); Sun, 4 Jul 2010 11:37:22 -0400 Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2010 16:37:08 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Theodore Tso Cc: Dave Airlie , Magnus Wendt , Luc Verhaegen , LKML , dri-devel Subject: Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component Message-ID: <20100704153708.GA21516@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100702095815.GA6802@skynet.be> <20100702111029.GB6802@skynet.be> <131ED6E6-9BAB-4BAC-A795-889C765C35F6@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <131ED6E6-9BAB-4BAC-A795-889C765C35F6@mit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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