I don't think that _everything_ _must_ be GPL, eventhought I use GPL sofware when I can choose one. But if I have a laptop with webcam and don't have driver for it, I wouldn't care too much if the driver would be binary only aslong as it's free of charge.

And as it's states in http://www.ali.com.tw/eng/support/datasheet_request.php "Datasheets are only available to ALi's development partners and customers who have signed non-disclosure agreements."

I'm not quite sure what all that includes, but I think open source driver is not fit into their image then. But could it be possible that Luca gets Datasheet, if his driver is not open source? Is so, then I think binary only driver is ok. Afterall maingoal here would be getting cam to work.

BTW Luca, are you working on 5602 driver aswell, so that Asus A6K's webcam will work too?


Anyway I wish all good for both projects (open source and binary only).

PS. Sorry for my bad English skills.