2011/6/20 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxx>: > Em 20-06-2011 17:24, HoP escreveu: >> 2011/6/20 Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: >>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:56 PM, HoP <jpetrous@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> Do you think it is really serious enough reason to prevent of having >>>> such virtualization driver in the kernel? >>>> >>>> Let check my situation and tell me how I should continue (TBH, I already >>>> thought that driver can be accepted, but my dumb brain thought because >>>> of non quality code/design or so. It was really big "surprise" which >>>> reason was used aginst it): >>> >>> Yes, this is entirely a political issue and not a technical one. >> >> Political? So we can declare that politics win (again) technicians. Sad. > > This is not a political issue. It is a licensing issue. If you want to use > someone's else code, you need to accept the licensing terms that the developers > are giving you, by either paying the price for the code usage (on closed source > licensing models), or by accepting the license when using an open-sourced code. > > Preserving the open-source eco-system is something that everyone > developing open source expect: basically, you're free to do whatever > you want, but if you're using a code written by an open-source developer, > the expected behaviour that GPL asks (and that the developer wants, when he > opted for GPL) is that you should return back to the community with any > changes you did, including derivative work. This is an essential rule of working > with GPL. > > If you're not happy with that, that's fine. You can implement another stack > that is not GPL-licensed. Mauro, you totally misunderstood me. If you see on my first post in that thread I was sending full GPL-ed driver to the mailinglist. I simply didn't expect that my source will be refused because of worrying about misuse it to the bad things(tm). Note again: I did it GPLed and opensourced, I never ever thought about binary blobs or some other closed stuffs! /Honza -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
