Silviu Marin-Caea <silviu_marin-caea@fieldinsights.ro> writes:
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 09:30, Peter Czanik wrote:
Maybe some would see that equivalent with "don't buy".
I'm sorry to say, but I agree. The main selling point of SUSE was in my experience, that everything worked out of the box. And not just worked,
I think the issue is having proprietary binary-only drivers in the kernel vs. userspace. If those drivers are modified to be in userspace, SUSE will ship them on the media and it would work out-of-the-box.
Is this right?
According to my understanding of the GPL, if there is a GPL kernel driver that interacts somehow with a binary-only user-level program, this would be fine - and Novell could add the GPL kernel driver in any case - and the binary-only user-level program if we have the rights to distribute it (note: it would go to the FACTORY-EXTRA tree), Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126