From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Status of UNDI Support
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 22:25:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603122225.58177.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bqwdujo7.fsf@xs4all.nl>
On Saturday 11 March 2006 14:42, Marco Gerards wrote:
> NDIS drivers are non-free software. We can't and will not support
> this. It can't even be done unofficially, in that case it will be a
> license violation, AFAIK.
From purely legal point of view, this is in a gray zone. For example, if you
compile GPL code on a proprietary C library, is this illegal? Note that BIOS
and Open Firmware are not Free Software usually, but we still use them.
> And besides that, using non-free software is just not the right thing
> to do.
I agree.
Okuji
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-12 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-09 11:07 Status of UNDI Support Martin Vogt
2006-03-09 11:36 ` vincent guffens
2006-03-10 9:49 ` vincent guffens
2006-03-10 14:07 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-10 14:39 ` Martin Vogt
2006-03-10 21:48 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-10 15:45 ` Yedidyah Bar-David
2006-03-10 21:55 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-11 9:04 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen
2006-03-11 14:42 ` Marco Gerards
2006-03-12 22:25 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
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