Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 14:37 schrieb Stephan Kulow:
Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2006 14:33 schrieb Silviu Marin-Caea:
On Tuesday 14 February 2006 15:10, s.schmidt@avm.de wrote:
Novell's decision to have non-GPL drivers no longer integrated, AVMs drivers will not be included on the distribution media anymore. The
Is this really true? I would think that closed source drivers will only be missing from the OSS downloadable .iso images. They would probably be found in the supplemental CD and in the retail box DVD media.
Reading really makes a difference some times. I quote once again:
Most developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules to be infringing on their copyright. Novell does respect this position, and will no longer distribute non-GPL kernel modules as part of future products.
The retail box DVD _is_ a future product and as such included in the above statement.
Greetings, Stephan
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I keep seeing this referred to, but I can't find any reference to it anywhere, I've glanced through the opensuse mail archives, opensuse news, Novell news, searched the Novell site (kernel remove/ban closed source/non-GPL), same with Google, for such a big change, it doesn't seem to have hit any news sites... Either that or the announcement doesn't include any of the keywords above... I would like to understand exactly what is involved in this decision and how it may affect me (E.g. I need the nVidia drivers currently for dual head and 3D, will these still be on YOU updates, or are they totally not available to SUSE customers through official channels? If the latter, how are SUSE getting around such restrictions to ensure their customers are unaffected by such a decision?). The only thing I found in the notes was the bit about kpm_ modules in Beta 4 in the announce list. I don't want to start ranting without knowing the facts, I also don't want to upgrade my dual-head set-up to 10.1 only to find I don't get any X afterwards... Dave