[openbeos] Parallel GPL Tree?

There's a lot of GPL code for BeOS, especially including lots of 
drivers, many coded by the companies who wrote them: the C-Media and 
Ensoniq drivers, the ATI Mach 64 and 3c509 drivers (which include a 
wrapper for Linux drivers of any kind, etc.), the Broadcom drivers, 
among many others. These would be nice to have affiliated with the 
OpenBeOS project, and useful for better hardware support. The 
difficulty is licensing. Thus I suggest that we create a parallel, 
FreeBSD-style GNU tree, with the rule that nothing in it can be 
essential to the functioning of the OS -- you can turn it on in the 
build system and get more drivers, if you want, or leave it out, sort 
of like (ironically, especially given the reasons we chose BSD :P) the 
"non-free" repository in Debian linux. This would be really, really, 
really useful.
-Nathan

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