Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux | Date | 20 Dec 1998 03:06:24 GMT |
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Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981218213510.21990A-100000@tourian.long.dyn.ml.org> By author: Michael Dale Long <mlong@custom.net> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > The binary only 3dfx.o module is quite popular with Linux users who own a > 3Dfx card. I suspect there are some other devices that are supported only > by binary only modules which are popular among their respective userbase, > regardless of how small that base might be. > > Allowing these to be dynamically loaded into the kernel non-GPL'ed is a > good thing IMHO. While free software is good, demanding GPL'ed drivers > from companies who are hesitant to release binary-only drivers is not > helpful to the parts Linux community who want support for that device. >
3dfx.o is certainly NOT a binary-only module, at least not last time I looked at it.
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