On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:13:23AM -0400, Sven Van Asbroeck wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 10:06 AM Mariusz Ceier <mceier+kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Let's assume the hipothetical corporation wants to add some > > proprietary stuff to the kernel and avoid sharing the code > > Wouldn't Greg KH be itching to remove such patches from the kernel? If > they made it in, in the first place. That's not what he was saying, he's saying the code could be distributed (i.e. on the company's github repo for example) to comply with GPL though they wouldn't care about getting it merged (like plenty of crappy vendors today). But the point is irrelevant since this can already be done using, say, clang which is already capable of building the kernel and where such extensions could already be added. I.e. that's just a non-argument, let's move along. Willy
