Standard Driver or Manufacturer's?

[Knapp]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub)
<amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be> wrote:
> On Thu, February 11, 2010 20:12, Knapp wrote:
>
>> It seems to come with source, which makes me wonder why anyone would
>> need the driver as the Linux people must have read it.
>
> It may come with source, but that doesn't mean that the source is "Free".
> Does it come with a license that is compatible with the Linux kernel? If
> it is, then it will probably already be in the most recent kernel. If it
> doesn't come with a compatible license, then the kernel team isn't allowed
> to use that particular implementation of the driver.

It would seem to be free, GNU 2! I think that is really cool!

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