On 19 Mar 2010, at 19:12, Greg KH wrote: > Note that it is not only Intel that is the ones using MeeGo, there are > lots of other OEMs that will be shipping it. And they define their > hardware platforms it will run on, not Nokia and Intel. It is up to > them to customize the system to work properly on their hardware, just > like any other distro. > > So there's no special "leverage" here, just like any other Linux distro.
I did see on the meego site that hardware enablement would require any patches to support hardware from an OEM would have to be pushed upstream. http://meego.com/developers/hardware-enabling-process It could possible be argued that binary blod drivers are stand alone, but I believe the feeling of the kernel developers is that all drivers for the linux kernel are considered derivative works and are subject to the same licensing terms. Possibly being naive about this, but there may be potential to restrict using MeeGo branding for hardware devices from OEM's that don't provide upstream patches for their MeeGo setups. -- Glen Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
