Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2004 20:42:20 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: Stop the Linux kernel madness |
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On Tue, 2004-06-22 18:32:15 +0100, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote in message <20040622173215.GA6300@infradead.org>: > On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 05:12:36PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > Just merge the vmware modules upstream. Then, such breakage will be > > detected early and probably fixed without putting a lot of work into it > > (from your point of view). > > a) vmware modules themselves aren't under a free license
That can be changed.
> b) even if they were there's not really much interest in modules that can't > work with non-free userspace
...as well as this issue. They'd get some (limited but sufficient) free maintainence for their software back. See? No technical issues 8^P The very same could be said about 4Front's OSS drivers.
MfG, JBG
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