Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 13 Nov 2001 02:48:06 +0100 | From | lobo@polbox ... | Subject | I'm sorry [it was: Nazi Kernels] |
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Hi again!
I'm sorry for my last post. It was very stupid, but it was written without any thinking. I respect You, and Your work, so I meant no offense to You, but I know, that my last post, was very aggresive. I'm sorry again, and I will try to think twice before I write any post like last.
Now after this introduction, I try to explain whats my problem with the new driver policy. When I try to load NVdriver to the kernel 2.1.14, the modprobe (modutils 2.4.10) writes following line "Note: modules without a GPL compatible license cannot use \ GPLONLY_ symbols". It's Your decision, but in My opinion, its not the right way. I'm affraid, that this doesn't change the hardware manufacters opinions about the binary distributions of the drivers, so they copy or write this functions, and the only effect for end user will be more memory consumption (I know that memory is cheap today). I think in the future this may be the right way, but today it's to early for that step.
Best Regards Przemek
PS. Sorry for my english, it's not my native language.
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