<quote who="Marco d'Itri" date="Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 12:55:18AM +0100"> > http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6028746-2.html?tag=st.next > > Moglen: > > I would distinguish the blobs from the proprietary drivers in the > kernel. If the kernel's terms were unambiguously GPL, which they are > apparently not, (proprietary drivers) would be forbidden. The > blobs--though they are ethically objectionable to the Free Software > Foundation, which believes that users ought to know what's running--are > different because they are separate works when executed running in > separate computers. From the point of view of the GPL work called the > Linux kernel, they're just data. Right. Moglen thinks that blobs in the kernel source are non-free but not GPL violations. Unfortunately, I think the contentious issue lies in his first claim, not the second. Regards, Mako -- Benjamin Mako Hill mako@debian.org http://mako.cc/
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