[openbeos] Re: OS Propaganda.... A new world order!

This is kind of tricky actually.

Reading the GPL faq this came up:

"If a library is released under the GPL (not the LGPL), does that mean that 
any program which uses it has to be under the GPL?
Yes, because the program as it is actually run includes the library."

This is a matter of how to interpret drivers and if they can be seen
as libraries loaded dynamivly, and I bet GNU can argue that they 
are. Could cause problems. If you want to be sure to now be in any
sort of problem, keep away from GPL.

I do not know what kind of licence obos is currently using, but
the 0BSD licence is not compatible with GPL, accoring to GNU.

Please, those of you who knows this kind of stuff, am I wrong?

Regards

/Procton

On 2002-05-25 at 20:34:49 [+0200], openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but nothing stops BeOS from having some GPL 
> drivers and nothing stops Linux from having some closed drivers...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Linus Almstrom" <linalm-7@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 3:19 PM
> Subject: [openbeos] Re: OS Propaganda.... A new world order!
> 
> 
> > GPL restricts us not to port them, I guess.
> >
> > On 2002-05-25 at 19:41:16 [+0200], openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Who said we couldn't use linux drivers ?
> > > Just need to take care about where we put it, but we definitely can 
> > > port a linux driver.
> > >
> > >
> > > En réponse à Massimiliano Origgi <origgi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > >
> > > > >I want to shorten this to a few key points, then answer them:
> > > > >1) Drivers are a critical key to the success of OpenBeOS.
> > > >
> > > > >Agreed, to a degree. One thing that is a vast improvement in
> situation
> > > > is
> > > > >that there is more standardization in hardware. There are only a 
> > > > >few
> > > > video
> > > > >cards out there, really - nVidia, Radeon, Matrox, etc. A lot of USB
> > > > devices
> > > > >(which are the future for many things) use standardized APIs (mass
> > > > storage,
> > > > >HCI, etc). So there will be fewer drivers to write than, say, 5 
> > > > >years
> > > > ago.
> > > >
> > > > Unless you have to work around broken implementations of standard 
> > > > protocols :
> > > > -)
> > > > Anyway, yes, it's a lot easier (see cd burners as an example),
> moreover
> > > > if
> > > > there is the possibility to write a driver at all (read there is 
> > > > some code or
> > > > a manual available), we can be pretty sure that a driver for BSD or 
> > > > Linux
> > > > already exists and while we can't use Linux code directly it can be 
> > > > 'consulted' for infos about the hardware, saving a LOT of time.
> > > > --
> > > >
> > > > Massimiliano Origgi    The future is blue with BlueOS
> > > >     http://www.intuiware.com    mailto:max@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >         Squeezer 2.1 available!
> > > >             WorkspaceSwitcher 2.1 available!
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >

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