- From: Sven Geggus <sven_at_geggus.net>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:19:28 +0100
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 03:25:50PM -0800, David Schleef wrote: > It appears ADDI-Data suffers from a common problem companies have > with open source -- once they have a product that works, they assume > they are "done", when in reality, they need to do the extra step > of getting their drivers included upstream. Doing this should be in there very own interest, because otherwise they would have to care for updates themselfes. Anyway, especially marketin g people tend to think, that they loose ther "intellectual property" when providing proper Open Source drivers. > The drivers are not included in the release, because their license > status is unclear. Presumably, the code is released under a license > that is compatible with the GPL, since anything else would imply > that they are violating the GPL in their Comedi fork. exactly! > I've tried to contact ADDI-Data about this, but to no effect. Hm, I will try to contact them again in their native language ;) Sven -- "In the land of the brave and the free, we defend our freedom with the GNU GPL" (Richard M. Stallman on www.gnu.org) /me is giggls_at_ircnet, http://sven.gegg.us/ on the Web
Received on 2005-02-10Z09:19:28