policy on GPL'd drivers?

[David Leimbach]

 Ugh... the network driver portion of the nforce drivers is *not* GPL'd but it
has a linux only and anti-reverse engineeing clause.

Dave
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 09:23AM, Alexander Kabaev <ak03 at gte.com> wrote:

>On Tue, 27 May 2003 07:20:17 -0700
>Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:45:29AM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
>> > On Tue, 27 May 2003 14:36:26 +0200
>> >
>> > I and no doubt many others will insist on keeping GPLed drivers out
>> > of the tree. I have no objections for this drivers to be confined in
>> > ports though.
>> 
>> kargl[205] ls /sys/gnu/dev/sound/pci
>> csaimg.h*  emu10k1-ac97.h  emu10k1.h  maestro3_dsp.h  maestro3_reg.h
>> 
>> The maestro3 driver is in the tree and is covered by the GPL
>> for the same reasons that David will need to GPL the FreeBSD
>> version of the nForce driver.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Steve
>This doesn't mean it is an open season for contaminating the tree with
>GPL. 
>
>-- 
>Alexander Kabaev
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