John Andersen wrote:
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Brian K. White
wrote: It always amazes me how people who complain about the requirements of gpl
Rest of off topic rant deleted.
You miss the point entirely. The GPL does not prohibit the use of either binary firmware drivers or binary blobs.
It simply prohibits their distribution embedded in a distro.
Actually, it doesn't prohibit that at all It prohibits not making the source code of the GPL portion accessible, at reasonable cost, to the receiver.
Some accommodation will sooner or later have to be made to make it easier to use your newly purchased computer with Linux. Either by fetching the drivers across the net or whatever works, and running those drivers in a safe sandbox if necessary.
Pretending that its 1985 is counterproductive.
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