vt1211 support

[Philip Prindeville]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

> Philip Prindeville wrote:
>
>> Is the vt1211 going to be included in the modules in the 2.6.12 kernel,
>> or are the sources considered tainted (not GPL)?
>>
>> -Philip
>>
> Modules not licensed as GPL as atleast one of its choices are not 
> going to be included in the upstream kernel. If its a GPL compatible 
> license its can be packaged in Fedora Extras but the kernel module 
> package naming has no consensus yet. There is a strong desire to see 
> such modules merged upstream too.


Went back and looked, and indeed vt1211.c is GPL, so I'm not sure why
it hasn't made it into the distribution... I guess it's not part of the 
CVS tree
for the kernel?

-Philip


>
> regards
> Rahul
>