W liście z śro, 12-06-2002, godz. 23:18, DEEvans pisze: > In Richard Stallman's response to Joe Barr back in May, he mentioned the > existence of binary-only drivers that had been shipped with the Linux > kernel since version 2.x. What are the implications of the existence of > the drivers on the Debian Social Contract, considering that Debian seems > to be shipping drivers that violate the GPL of the kernel, (depending on > who's arguing)? What is Debian's official position in this regard? AFAIR Linus stated at least two thighs that differ real kernel license from "standard" GPL (as if there could be any non-standard GPL ;-) : 1. Binary modules are *OK* 2. Linux kernel is licensed ONLY under GPL v2, not any later or previous. Both statments (if they're treated as official and powerful - they were such AFAIR) alter original GPL2. So there's no problem because Linux kernel is not really under GPL2 ;-) BTW: Do you want to start another flame war? don't you? 8) Regards Grzegorz Prokopski PS: There was many times a lot of discussion on lkml - for those intersted reading kernel traffic from last 2 months should give some pointers. In short opinions differ, but it seems that what Linus stated bacame the law :-) PSS: I am not debian official of any kind (in case you thought so)
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