Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux in a binary world... a doomsday scenario | From | Lee Revell <> | Date | Tue, 06 Dec 2005 13:51:13 -0500 |
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On Tue, 2005-12-06 at 17:36 +0200, Hannu Savolainen wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > > > How about refusing binary-only modules instead? I mean, maybe > > if Linux will stop being lax about GPL requirements on modules. > Or why not to include an embedded version of gcc/binutils in the kernel > LKM interface. In this way all drivers can only be distributed in source > code which effectively makes all forms of binary only drivers impossible.
Are you saying you'd open source all those binary only OSS drivers if this were to happen?
Lee
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