Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 19 Sep 1998 03:28:43 +0100 | From | Carlos Morgado <> | Subject | Re: Linux, UDI and SCO. |
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On Fri, Sep 18, 1998 at 03:25:13PM +0100, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Alan, > > I can't argue with you because I mostly agree with your opinion. > My only point was "if there is something useful in this - take it. otherwise > - ignore it" - very simple and pragmatical :) (e.g. in order to make use of > Olicom's token ring cards at home I used the binary (non-GPL) driver. I didn't > care (in that context, not generally!) whether it was GPL or not as long as it > worked and there was nothing GPL'ed that would replace it). >
That was a specific case where you broke the law. > So, if introduction of UDI gives hardware vendors an excuse to justify > not-releasing the specs that is very bad. But it is better than having neither > excuses, nor specs, nor UDI (non-GPL) binary drivers... >
Keep in mind non-GPLaware UDI drivers can't be insmoded into the kernel so the use of binary-only drivers is proibited by law. The argument of "i can't use it with linux" still stands.
Furthermore I think we should be pushing to make the whole UDI interface GPLed (open sourced ... something) in order to force hardware vendors to make source available.
my unworthy $2 ;)
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