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Vanishing Features of the 2.6 Kernel | |
| Subject: | Push the vendor, kill the independent developer | |
| Date: | 2002-12-16 23:47:49 | |
| From: | anonymous2 | |
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Vendors may respond to this push towards GPL modules, but independent developers who put their own money and time into providing a driver for a certain piece of hardware for Linux who comply with the NDA set by the hardware vendor can only stop their effort and count their losses if this move continues. I run a philips webcam and this driver makes the kernel 'tainted'. Reading the comment of the author about this move makes it clear that he cannot make a GPL module (see http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/tainting.html) because of the NDA. So 'more GPL kernel' means 'end of driver'. |
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