Binary drivers and GPL

Enough is enough! I'm SO tired of hearing this over and over now. But since it's raging on I might as well throw some coal into the fire a little ;-)

As much as I would love to see a ban on binary drivers to protect the kernel, this issue isn't going away. Not only that but I'd love to see a module blacklist in which a non-tainted kernel refuses to load binary drivers that are not GPL.

We have to make sure that we restrict binary drivers as much as possible because other companies may decide that they don't need to release their specs/sources anymore because binary drivers become the norm and because their competition is also not releasing their specs/code. This I fear is the danger if we go down this road. We can't allow companies to dictate indirectly how a kernel will function.

Shawn.