[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Marco d'Itri wrote: >> So you understand that we will remove from the kernel e.g. ide-cd and >> the ACPI subsystem? This does not appears to be correct to me. >Is it completely impossible to have an IDE CD drive or an ACPI hardware >system without keeping part of it under proprietary copyright or patent >control? (i.e. is there a patent issue or an issue with restrictive >standards licensing?) I expect CD players to be subject to many patents, but I have never investigate the issue (some may be expired).
-- ciao, Marco
