[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 31 January 2007 02:17 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see you carefully neglected the first of these two points.
I didn't *carefully* neglect it.;-)
It's all fine and good if GLPv3 allows device driver linking explicitely,
but what if the main source of GPL'ed drivers remains GPLv2?
This could be a reality, but I suspect once the GPLv3 is out, there will be a
following to support it. Certainly time will show-all.
Which is why "now" is probably the wrong time to make any decision
about GPLv3.
I see no benefit in us being early adopters; if there is movement, e.g.,
a movement to accept GPLv3 drivers into Linux and a subsequent hint of
convergence between *BSD and Linux device drivers, then that would
be the time to jump on the bandwagon. But only when it is a bandwagon.
Why oh why do so many people seem to believe that the license is the
biggest issue in "porting" Linux kernel device drivers to OpenSolaris ?
There are huge technical issues as well- and they are (or should be!)
much more interesting!
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Darren J Moffat
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