Re: [PATCH] Blacklist binary-only modules lying about their license

Peter Williams
2004-04-30T04:33:15Z

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:
> On Friday 30 of April 2004 04:15, Marc Boucher wrote:
>
>>Dear Sean,
>>
>>On Apr 29, 2004, at 7:55 PM, Sean Estabrooks wrote:
>>
>>>Perhaps others on this list are getting as tired as I am of your using
>>>the term "religious bias" as a negative connotation against people who
>>>support and protect the open source nature of Linux. Maybe you could
>>>at least pretend to respect the people who you supposedly apologized
>>>to.
>>
>>I not only highly respect Rusty but have closely worked and been
>>friends with him for several years. The same applies to several other
>>kernel developers.
>>
>>Please don't get me wrong. We are entirely for the open-source nature
>>of Linux, and I have been personally contributing for the last 15 years
>>to many open-source projects (for examples, see the AUTHORS section of
>>"man iptables", or search google for my previous email addresses
>>marc@mbsi.ca & marc@cam.org to get more historical background).
>
>
> Well, people change over time. 8)
>
> from http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/
>
> "DriverLoader technology is the ideal Linux solution to support devices for
> which no adequate native open-source drivers are available. It also allows
> vendors to drastically reduce time to market or eliminate the need to support
> multiple drivers for Windows and Linux. By using the same driver on both
> platforms, significant resources can be saved."
>
> Rusty was right.

Why did you omit the next paragraph (which completes the story):

"We have attempted to reduce the inconvenience of binary-only drivers by
separating the proprietary code from the operating-system specific code.
The latter is provided in source form, allowing users to install the
drivers under any supported version (2.4 or later) of the Linux kernel."

Peter
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