Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:32:42 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? Message-ID: <452657.1054049562285.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com>
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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@gte.com> wrote: >On Tue, 27 May 2003 07:20:17 -0700 >Steve Kargl <sgk@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 >_______________________________________________ >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" > >
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