On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 07:41:07PM -0600, Chris Cheney wrote: > On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 12:01:14AM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > -snip- > > Sophistry. It's clearly the form you "preferred" when you were writing > > it. The GPL does not require that programs be well-written, it merely > > requires a level playing field. > > So binary firmware is ok as long as it was not the vendor that wrote > the driver? Wow isn't that ingenious. :P Actually a reverse engineered driver with blobs in it is probably illegal since it is reproducing copyrighted code, I forgot to mention that earlier. :) BTW - I know of at least one other driver in the linux kernels like that, the one I wrote: kernel/drivers/usb/media/vicam.ko Chris
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