That is curious. What do they think is in it for us?
Perhaps instead of a shim to allow UDI drivers to run
on Linux, they should be writing a shim to allow Linux
drivers to run under UDI.
> There is no way, no how for a GNU GPL UDI device driver to
> be used in a closed-source commercial OS.
I think you are wrong. UDI is intended to allow user-space
drivers if the kernel UDI implementation allows it.
This means a driver is basically an application on the OS,
using an OS API. This is a similar situation to the GPLled
ethernet drivers that BeOS AFAIK still uses.
I'm not sure what this means. I am also not sure whether
any of the big commercial OSs will have support for user-
space UDI drivers and how much the legal situation changes
if the driver is run in kernel space instead of user space.
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