Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (249 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 07:04:09PM +0100, Andrea Florio wrote:
> Il 10/02/2010 18:42, Robert Kaiser ha scritto:
> > Michael Loeffler wrote:
> > > - Simplified access to useful but proprietary software
> > >    - drivers (NVidia etc.)
>
> like broadcom-wl drivers that i actually maintain on packman... (other
> distro like ubuntu already provides them.. i can't understand why we cannot.

Because distributing closed source kernel drivers is something that
Novell has stated it will not do.

Not to mention the legal aspects of the whole thing...

thanks,

greg k-h
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