On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Bjørn Mork <bjorn@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Nothing prevents a third-party from writing closed source drivers. >> What we do *not* think is fair though is that those third parties >> should be able to take advantage of all the GPL code that makes up the >> DVB core, and the man-years spent developing that code. > > You could use the same argument against adding a loadable module > interface to the Linux kernel (and I'm pretty sure it was used). > Thankfully, usability won back then. Or we most likely wouldn't have > had a single Linux DVB driver. Or Linux at all, except as a historical > footnote. > > Honza posted a GPL licensed driver and gave a pretty good usage > scenario. Please don't reject it based on fear of abuse. If you think > about it, almost any usability improvement will also make abuse easier. > And if you reject all of them based on such fear, then your system will > die. There isn't much sense in having this discussion again (and kicking off yet another flamewar). All of your arguments have been made before (and in the case of Linux DVB, they failed). I would suggest you read the archives and see how the developers arrived at their conclusions. If you have some *new* argument to offer, then feel free. Otherwise it's just flamebait. Anyway, I've said what I have to say on this topic. Cheers, Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
