https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADSCjiiMcaU
> linux laptop company, you have one job, make your drivers compatible with linux
> somehow you license your drivers incompatible with kernel
> someone ask you to relicense so it can be upstreamed, contributors all sign off
> nothing happens
> four years later switch from github to gitlab, lose all issues
> somebody didn't forget, asks again in new issue
> now company renegs, says it does this to control development process
> oops, someone finds out the drivers lie about being gpl2 which enabled them to access kernel code they're not allowed to use
> "sorry this license change will take an indeterminate amount of time to do a search-replace we can't just get it done overnight"
> ok well maybe kernel devs just blacklist your modules since they lie, breaking all your customers laptops on next update when your modules won't load
> oh hey we fixed the issue overnight
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