@corona_coder:
Don't you have something better to do then pissing off everybody?

First off non-gpl drivers are legal, the gpl only comes in play when redistributing the kernel with these drivers loaded.
So for the end-user it's perfectly legal for them to install and use them, it's illegal to redistribute the modified kernel(not driver) to your friends.

Second, forking the kernel won't help you one bit, since the kernel is GPLv2 only and can't be licensed under GPLv3.

Third, this patch came to a developers frustration of fixing bugs of these 'tainted' kernels.  And wasn't a political move more a pragmatic move.

And yeah patch is already removed. Tongue Out