On Tuesday 13 July 2010 14:57:22 Andreas Jaeger wrote:
The driver violates the kernel license and therefore we do not distribute it as part of openSUSE.
I think I'm beginning to understand. The reason for not making the Broadcom drivers available is not because of Broadcom's distribution licensing but because it's closed source and the suse kernel is GPL and therefore the two will not play nice. If a user wants/needs the Broadcom driver then he must get it by some other means and figure out a way to install without suse's help. Is that the shorthand way of explaining it? Even if that is the case, I still don't understand the earlier comment that Packman couldnt make those drivers available.
Why can't Broadcom play this - like many others - according to the roles of the game?
Perhaps it's because no one really knows the rules of the game??
Andreas --
Is this another of those religious wars that will never be settled because there is no middle ground? It's awfully frustrating, especially to the non technical user. Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org