On 7/19/06, Dan Malek [off-list ref] wrote:

On Jul 19, 2006, at 9:14 AM, Kumar Gala wrote:

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This is an incorrect assumption.  Its more often that people dont
post their ports to the Linux kernel for acceptance.  We will
accept any port that is willing to work with the community.   for
example

I agree.  The customers of board ports I've done over the years
are always eager to get these into the public sources.  It just
seems we run out of time during the pressure of trying to get
the products done, and they just issue them on CDs or for
download afterward.

But why?  Most embedded products facing end-user wouldn't like users
to modify the system by themselves.  Sometimes they even put effort in
preventing user to do so.  If no one else is going to modify the code,
what is the value of putting them in public sources?  Just to show the
compliance with GPL?  The only kind of products I can think of, which
want the users to modify the code is reference boards, IMHO.  Please
correct me if I'm wrong.