From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761805AbYA1QQy (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:16:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761523AbYA1QQf (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:16:35 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:43690 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761208AbYA1QQe (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:16:34 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 08:13:30 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Clemens Ladisch Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only Message-ID: <20080128161330.GC8790@kroah.com> References: <20080125180232.GA4613@kroah.com> <479D8E9C.5030808@ladisch.de> <20080128085757.GA25035@kroah.com> <479DA75F.2070603@ladisch.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <479DA75F.2070603@ladisch.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:58:55AM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > 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? > > http://www.opensound.com/ > > > 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.) > > They aren't used widely (with Linux), and AFAIK the USB driver doesn't > have anything to favor it over the ALSA driver. Ok, then we don't have any issues :) thanks, greg k-h