Devin Heitmueller <dheitmuel...@kernellabs.com> writes: > Nothing prevents a third-party from writing closed source drivers. > What we do *not* think is fair though is that those third parties > should be able to take advantage of all the GPL code that makes up the > DVB core, and the man-years spent developing that code.
You could use the same argument against adding a loadable module interface to the Linux kernel (and I'm pretty sure it was used). Thankfully, usability won back then. Or we most likely wouldn't have had a single Linux DVB driver. Or Linux at all, except as a historical footnote. Honza posted a GPL licensed driver and gave a pretty good usage scenario. Please don't reject it based on fear of abuse. If you think about it, almost any usability improvement will also make abuse easier. And if you reject all of them based on such fear, then your system will die. Thanks. Bjørn -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
