Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: Developing non-commercial drivers ? | | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | | Date | Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:25:33 -0500 | |
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:16:44 +0100, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fredrik_Markstr=F6m?= said:
> I'm working for as a consultant for a large hardware company porting
> Linux to their new cpu-architecture and everything is pretty much
> up and running. Now they want us to develop a closed-source (to
> protect their IP) ethernet driver for their proprietary Ethernet MAC.
Am I the only one that's boggled by the concept of a company that can develop
an entire CPU architecture and be OK on the GPL licensing of all the code
in arch/new-foo-cpu that exposes the IP of the cpu design, but they're worried
about the special sauce in a freakin' *ethernet controller*?
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