Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 4 Jul 2010 16:37:08 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: Closed source userspace graphics drivers with an open source kernel component |
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On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 07:03:22AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> We have sources to our web browsers but not to the a number of the > various web services that the browsers talk to (GMail, AIM, Gmane, > Yahoo Finance, Google Search, etc.). > > And we have the sources to the Intel wireless drivers, but not to the > firmware, and that's not necessarily considered a horrendous thing.
But we did consider it a horrendous thing when we had the source to a Intel wireless driver but not the source to the usercode regulatory daemon it required. Sufficiently horrendous not to merge the driver.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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