Hi everybody, >Over two years ago, the Linux USB developers stated that they believed >there was no way to create a USB kernel driver that was not under the >GPL. This patch moves the USB apis to enforce that decision.
>There are no known closed source USB drivers in the wild, so this patch >should cause no problems. hm, I'm not sure, but will your patch make Samsung's Unified Linux Driver for printing & scanning stop working? http://org.downloadcenter.samsung.com/downloadfile/ContentsFile.aspx?CDSite=DE&CttFileID=801111&CDCttType=DR&ModelType=N&ModelName=SCX-4521F&VPath=DR/200707/20070720165133984_UnifiedLinuxDriver.tar.gz another Manufacturer / Candidate I'm worrying about is Brother: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html Brother is providing opensource cups drivers (kudos to the developers @ Brother for that!), the sane-drivers however seem to be closed source, will those work ? I'm no developer, just a heavy user ;) so unfortunately I can't tell whether those drivers are dependent on being NOT GPL, if your patch will find its inclusion into Linus' mainline-tree, there's still the possibility to revert that patch, right ? (freedom of doing with the code what I need to) Many thanks in advance & thanks a lot for your work :) Mat -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/