Re: policy on GPL'd drivers?

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 07:20:17 -0700 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:09 UTC

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