On Tuesday 24 January 2006 02:52, Bill Unruh wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jan 2006, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 17:34 -0800, Bill Unruh wrote: > >> Well, I also think that is a mistake. A Write once would also be far > >> more > >> stable as far as Linux itself is concerned. If every time the kernel > >> changes you have to worry whether or not your driver is broken, it > >> makes > >> for highly unstable drivers, even if they are open source. > >> Furthermore, > >> Linux is a tool for most of us, not a religion. > > > > It's not religion, it's the law. Drivers are part of the kernel so must > > Law? What law? No where in copyright law, which is the only law which > might apply is there anything about drivers or kernels. > And your statement was "Linux developers do not want to allow closed source > drivers" The wants of Linux developers are not law.
no, but copyright law is all about licences. Read the licence. Read it again. If you do not understand it (and I have the feeling you do not understand copyright and licences) ask a lawyer to explain it to you. GPL software is under a licence with few but strict requirements. You have to follow them, or you are just as criminal, as the boys&girls downloading windows XP over bittorrent. btw, where are suddenly all this 'we need a fix binary abi' people are coming from? Until ca 2 month ago they never spoke up, and suddenly in every forum or mailing lists are popping up people, most of them posting for the first time, demanding a fix ABI. Newsflash: the userland abi&api is fix. There is nothing to whine about. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list Alsa-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
