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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
To: Gilles Espinasse <g.esp@free.fr>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only 
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On Feb 1 2008 15:45, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
>..
>> There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this
>> patch should cause no problems.
>
>There is the unicorn usb adsl modem driver (STM unicorn chip).
>http://www.bewan.com/bewan/drivers/A1012-A1006-A904-A888-A983-0.9.3.tgz
>There is some sources and a binary blob to be linked.
>
>The only things I know from the binary blob is that sources should be 150 000
>lines of C++.

It's 63 C++ files actually (wow, that even beats the blob-iness of nvidia!)
and a few files look rather empty. Their source would rather benefit
from getting a review on LKML.