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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On 
> Behalf Of llandre
> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 6:27 AM
> To: Michael
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] Original drivers for ISP1362 by Philips
> 
> 
> Hi Mike,
> 
> thanks a lot for your answers.
> The licensing model is clearly very important and I did not 
> realized they are not under GPL (when one gets used to work 
> with tons of open source software, sometimes assumes by 
> default that all the sources are covered by this license 
> ...). I'm getting in touch with Philips technical support to 
> clear this point.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> llandre
> 
> DAVE Electronics System House - R&D Department
> web:   http://www.dave-tech.it
> email: r&[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> 
> >Hrm... I'll give you some of mine.  These were when I first tried to 
> >get USB working:
> >
> >1. It used an older version of the kernel, one that won't get much
> >(any?) support from the linux community.  I wanted 2.6
> >
> >2. I took a brief look at some sort of licence agreement, or 
> whatever 
> >it was (can't remember) that went along with it.  I don't know if I 
> >could even legally use it (especially compiled in), but at any rate, 
> >that by itself scared me off.  I'd have to take a look at it 
> again to 
> >give you a better answer.
> >
> >3. I took a quick look at the code, and it didn't seem (albeit to
> >my inexperienced eye) very well written.   *shrug*
> >
> >4. I prefer to stick with full open source, 
> community-support drivers.  
> >For instance, when we used a MSys DiskOnChip, I moved from their 
> >drivers to the linux-mtd drivers, which didn't work quite as 
> well, but 
> >I could compile it statically into the kernel.
> >(motivation: increased boot speed)
> >
> >I hope this has been helpful.
> >At least one of the above points must be a valid reason.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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