On 04/07/2016 05:55 PM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Simon Lees
wrote: Developers of the kernel community consider non-GPL kernel modules to be infringing on their copyright. openSUSE does respect this position and will not distribute non-GPL kernel modules as part of products.
Given that these people accept BSD licensed kernel modules and the the fact that there is no permission to relicense BSD licensed software under GPL, this does not seem to be a reasonable decision.
Jörg
Personally I don't mind so much either, I just repeated the reason given on the other list when the question was asked 2 months ago, i'm happy to leave it to legal experts of which I am not. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adeliade Australia, UTC+9:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B