>> This is not a political issue. It is a licensing issue. If you want to use >> someone's else code, you need to accept the licensing terms that the >> developers >> are giving you, by either paying the price for the code usage (on closed >> source >> licensing models), or by accepting the license when using an open-sourced >> code.
Mauro, My comments for your review: I've spoken on this topic many times, it's bad news for the LinuxTV eco-system and it will eventually lead to binary only drivers that ultimately diminishes all of the good work that me any my fellow developers have poured into Linux over the last 5-10 years. I repeat my message from 2 years ago when the subject was raised: and this is (paraphrase) "I can say with great certainty that if we allow API's that permit closed source drivers then silicon vendors and board manufacturers will take advantage of that, they will only delivery (at best) closed source drivers". If closed source drivers is what the community wants then this is a way to achieve this. I don't want to see user-space drivers happen through LinuxDVB or V4L2 API's. I politely and respectfully nack this idea. Best, - Steve -- Steven Toth - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
