Hi! > > Which we know in practice they won't. They'll sit on fixes (often > > security fixes) and tweak and add private copies of features. In turn the > > Linux one could then only keep up by adding features itself - which would > > have to be GPL to stop the same abuse continuing. > > > > It's a nice idea but the corporations exist to make money and adding > > proprietary custom stack add-ons is clearly a good move on their part to > > do that. > > Hence my recommendation that if someone is going to do the work to > create a 802.11 layer that has shims that work on multiple operating > systems, it be GPL with explicit exceptions to allow said layer to > work on legacy operating systems like QNX, et. al. That way it forces Is the exception even neccessary? GPL has explicit permission to link against non-GPL 'system' and 'compiler' libraries --which seems to be exactly this. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
