Hi Rebecca Rebecca J. Walter schrieb:
The GPL violation has nothing to do with what server it is placed on. The entire point is that using the drivers is a violation of the GPL.
If you follow the kernel policy, agreed so far. The future will show, what a judge would say about it. IMHO, this answer is not so clear.
By distributing them, Novell would be violating the GPL and supporting violation of the GPL.
The latter I can agree, but please, what is the link between a driver violating the GPL and the interdiction to distribute this driver? IMHO this is nowhere written in the GPL, can you please tell us on which facts/laws/licences this conclusion is based on?
For obvious reasons, this isn't something the company wants to do. What you want to do is your problem and you'll have to face the legal consequences.
Exactly, it should be the choice of the user, not of the distributor. But to get this choice, the distributor has to deliver the binaries, too. Ciao Siegbert P.S.: Sorry Rebecca, I forgot to change the To: to the list, so you will get this twice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org