Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Feb 2008 21:14:48 +0100 | From | Christer Weinigel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] USB: mark USB drivers as being GPL only |
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On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 12:34:18 -0800 Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> In the end, it's up to the copyright holders to enforce the license. > And as I have stated in the past, a number of them have made public > statements as to what they think about this issue. And it corresponds > exactly with what Marcel has stated above. > > So if you wish to violate the copyright of others, you take the risk > that you might be caught and punished, something that you and your > legal council needs to take into account.
So when do you sue Nvidia, ATI, Atheros, Broadcom[1], M-Systems/Sandisk[2] or Nokia? All those companies distribute binary drivers for Linux without providing source code?
/Christer
[1] WIFI chips and drivers used by Cisco, Asus and a lot of other manufacturers.
[2] DiskOnChip devices used in lots of embedded systems, among others the Troll Tech Greenphone.
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