EC> I see no way of forcing hardware manufacturers to use LGPL.
Of course this is impossible. But if requirements for LGPL will be included
in "UDI certification" process then most (but of course not all) hardware
manufacturers will use GPL.
EC> The only way would seem to be to not put UDI in the official
EC> kernel, but there are sure to be distributions that put it
EC> in anyway (Xi graphics will, I would guess) and individuals
EC> will always be free to do so.
UDI by itself if not Bad Thing :-) UDI has real benefits and IMO must be
included in kernel 2.3 (may be even backported in 2.2). But we must be VERY
AWARE about possible harm and we must do our best to make sure that each
and every Joe Average Linux user is aware about possible problems with
binary-only UDI drivers...
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