Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 30 May 2015 17:28:56 +0200 | Subject | Re: Device Tree Blob (DTB) licence | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> |
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On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 12:16 AM, David Lang <david@lang.hm> wrote: >> If the DTS license would be a problem, it would be worse w/ ACPI >> and any proprietary firmware/BIOSes. > > not true, with a proprietary bios it's a clear "pay this much money and > don't worry about it" while with GPL there's a nagging fear that someone you > never heard of may sue you a decade from now claiming you need to give them > the source to your OS.
That can also happen with the proprietary BIOS. You don't know what's really inside.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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