Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2006 18:20:02 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: GPL only modules [was Re: [GIT PATCH] more Driver core patches for 2.6.19] |
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> > The Ubuntu feisty fawn mess was a dangerous warning bell of where we're > > going. If we don't stand up at some point, and ban binary drivers, we > > will, I fear, end up with an unsustainable ecosystem for Linux when > > binary drivers become pervasive. I don't want to see Linux destroyed > > like that. > >Thing is, if kernel.org kernels get patched to disallow binary modules, >whats to stop Ubuntu (or anyone else) reverting that change in the >kernels they distribute ? The landscape doesn't really change much, >given that the majority of Linux end-users are probably running >distro kernels.
And even if the distros don't change it (all legal issues aside), there's probably some free user who repacks the distro kernel.
/me eyeballs myself...
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