From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 27 08:32:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CC0A37B401 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 08:32:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (A17-250-248-85.apple.com [17.250.248.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BBEF43F85 for ; Tue, 27 May 2003 08:32:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimy2k@mac.com) Received: from webmail05.mac.com (webmail05-en1 [10.13.11.147]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h4RFWgXj021551; Tue, 27 May 2003 08:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from webmail05 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by webmail05.mac.com (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id h4RFWgg1000805; Tue, 27 May 2003 08:32:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <452657.1054049562285.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:32:42 -0500 From: David Leimbach To: Alexander Kabaev Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Steve Kargl Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 15:32:43 -0000 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 wrote: >On Tue, 27 May 2003 07:20:17 -0700 >Steve Kargl 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 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >