Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:57:57 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only |
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:13:16AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed > > there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the > > GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision. > > > > There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch > > should cause no problems. > > There are the commercial OpenSound drivers.
What are they? Do you have a link to them? And why have I not heard from any user of them for the past two years (we have had a kernel warning for over 2 years for this issue.)
thanks,
greg k-h
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