[openbeos] Re: openbeos Digest V2 #153

En réponse à John MacGrillen <Arc.Lites@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Not quite.
> GPL states that if your code is based on GPL code then it too falls
> under
> GPL.
> If your program requires a GPLed library (static or dynamic) then the
> program code falls under GPL.
> The exceprtion is if the GPLed code calls on libraries or other
> programs
> that are under another license these are not automatically GPLed too.
> This
> means that GPL drivers can call on the kernel without having to GPL
> the
> kernel. Sony did this quite successfully with Linux on the PS2. They
> added a
> closed source layer under the Linux kernel and altered the kernel to
> call
> the closed source library, nicely hiding the hardware underneath while
> no
> breaking the GPL.
Hmmm, I didn't know about this... Sony got Bad(tm) points today in my heart 
for this. They still didn't understand the philosophy underneath :-(
Grrr, in my time one used to have the full schematics of his putter... 
(not so much old: ORIC Atmos), and everybody found this normal to 
publish this in magazines.
Hmm, I'll stop here, before I get angry again :^)

> 
> Cedri Degea wrote:
> >The NVidia driver is
> >1) for Linux (GPL)
> >2) written by people outside the linux "core team".
> They're not GPL, or any sort of open source format. These drivers are
> written by nVidia themselves and based on the same Detonator code base
> they
> use for Windows. nVidia will not open the code for these. There are
> open
> source drivers for pre version 4 XFree, but they are not anywhere near
> the
> same standard.
Same as for the Philips webcam drivers, it's split in 2 parts (!?)
one closed source and one open-source (GPLed ??)

> 
> 
> Jeremy Powers wrote:
> >I resemble this remark. ;-)
> >Some of us lurkers are very hard workers (in our own minds), but are
> >stuck working on non-obos stuff.  It sucks not having the time to do
> >everything you want... but speaking purely for myself, I'm sure most
> >lurkers would love to be able to work, but simply lack the time.
> Me too.:) Windows and Linux (work related) sucks up nearly all of my
> time.
Hmmm, makes me a shock when I see someone comparing winblows to Linux.
Here I'll shut up too before I flood the mail servers :)))

François.

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