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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:13:16 +0100
From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only
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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.


Regards,
Clemens