31 May
2006
31 May
'06
13:58
Bruce Marshall wrote:
On Wednesday 31 May 2006 00:02, Ken Schneider wrote:
Now this idea of removing all this non-GPL stuff.... what was gained by that? And that is a Novell-only decision, right?
Actually it was the kernel devs that dictated it, they didn't ask it to be so they made it mandatory.
Then how in heck is Linux ever going to become a mainstream operating system when the kernel can't have proprietary code hung off of it
But it can quite well - there's no problem in that at all. Well, maybe one of incompatibility when your vendor only provides a module for a certain kernel-version. SUSE/Novell are not telling you not to use non-GPL code/modules, just that they're not shipping any with the distro. /Per Jessen, Zürich