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Pavel Machek wrote: > ...it should be very easy to opensource simple 'something' layer. If > it is so complex it is 'hard' to opensource, it is missdesigned, > anyway... so fix the design. > It's not a design issue - it's a legal issue at this point, and one that I'm not qualified to come up with a good answer for. The biggest technical issue I think for open sourcing the VMI, is that it is not part of the kernel, but stand alone firmware with a rather bizarre build environment, so the code alone is not sufficient to allow it to be open sourced, but this is not a hard problem to solve. Zach - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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