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Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the penguin-is-confused dept.

AlanS2002 writes "The Kororaa Project, a pre-configured binary install method for Gentoo Linux which bundles nVidia's and ATI binary drivers in its Kororaa Xgl Live CD , has put its Live CD on hold after being accused of violating the GPL. The issue appears to be the distribution of the Linux Kernel and nVidia's/ATI binary drivers together. When the binary drivers are built the GPL'ed code is included in the binary result, which is a violation."

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  1. Why not wait to see if this is an issue? by khasim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Before you go on about how evil the GPL is, why not wait until there is some clarification on the issue.

    So far, an un-identified person sent an email to someone distributing a Live CD making certain claims.

    As far as I can see, no one has said whether that person has any code of his/her own in that Linux distribution. Nor has anyone who would be able to say one way or the other been quoted.

    Personally, I'd wait until Linus or ATI said that this was wrong before going off on how evil the GPL is.