This is nonsense. Sooner or later EVERY program demand something from the kernel. You have no clue how software really works do you?
I do actually. Most actually refer to LGPL libs, which is permitted, so no, not everything is a derived work. This is why most companies prefer GTK over Qt also, or just using wine for their port. As an aside, this is also how Trolltech make their money, you can't use the Qt provided by Novell and others at all for proprietary stuff because the open source version is GPL, thus derived works would be required to be GPL too... so people like Adobe and Opera purchase the proprietary license so they can use it without GPL'ing their software. They made more than Novell did last quarter going by financial documents I've seen, so it appears to be working for them.
Calling another program does not make the caller a derived work. Nor does it make the called program a derived work.
IANAL, but a lawyer disagrees, see the the Software Freedom Law Center. Also, see some of Eben Moglen's talks on the subject.
And that too is a misstatement.
No, it's not.
Listen sonny,
I would appreciate it if you weren't condescending, thank you.
stop preaching here till you get your law degree, or at least graduate from high school.
*shrug* ... I just happen to listen to lawyers on the topic a lot. I think they'd know a lot better than you considering they specialize on the topic.
Again, total nonsense. No hardware venders are REQUIRING anything of linux.
Umm, yes they are. See the Linux Foundation site for statements about this. HP and Dell have committed to this as I stated previously.
Older video cards are being dropped from the shelves daily. Older WIFI chipsets are being replaced with newer models.
Yes, but if the hardware vendors don't include it due to the licensing, as Dell and HP have promised to do, they'll see the light eventually.
If you want performance you are going to have non-gpl drivers in your machine. Its that simple.
This is the case currently, yes... which is EXACTLY why Linux isn't ready for the consumer desktop. Try Windows if you disagree, and come back in a few years when Linux is ready.
By the way, is your kernel tainted? cat /proc/sys/kernel/tainted
What point does this make exactly? openSUSE includes a lot of things that are bad, but they - like Ubuntu - go through several loop holes to ensure by current definitions it's not illegal. The same hardware, fully supported on a Fedora box returns 0 because I brought this hardware to be utterly OSS compliant with drivers. I think you need to educate yourself a little, your points are _very_ misled. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org