Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 14th Dec 2006 03:00 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
"It's always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message."
More here. Hopefully, many closed-source drivers will be opened during the next year if this patch goes through. Update: Linus responds.
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2005-09-23
Yes you're right. It seems his contributions are merely few in number and large in size. Sorry Greg--please mod down that post. The reason this issue gets me riled up is that the same people who fight DRM with all their might, yet we turn around and try to make our code enforce the legality! :-(