On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:24:04PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:35 -0700, Ganesh Venkatesan wrote:
> > Adrian:
> >
> > Some of your suggestions are already part of the driver we are
> > currently testing. This was based partly on your Feb '05 patch. We
> > will not be able to apply your patch as is since some of the changes
> > are in part of code that is shared with other drivers that are not
> > GPLd.
>
> this sounds really bad.
>
> Can you talk to the intel people in the ACPI group, they had a similar
> issue before but were able to resolve it by a proper dual license
> comment. It would be much preferable if people CAN do changes to the
> entire driver... what's the point of having it open source otherwise ;)
I'm not sure whether Ganesh was really talking about license issues, or
whether the problem is that my patch #if 0's away code they use in other
non-GPL'ed drivers.
cu
Adrian
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