You already had to do that with IBM/Lenovo laptops. That's the company that creates a BIOS that refused to boot if an "unauthorised" card was in the minipci slot.
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But nevertheless I wonder sometimes if this happened to me. I have not recieved any moderation points for over hour years now... I don't really care all that much but I do wonder if it was because of something I said or did. Someone else suggested it was because I visited Slashdot with an HTTP 'referer' header that revealed that I followed a link from that stupid Slashdot troll jihad coordination site.
If the authors of the Linux kernel really cared that much about software under this license then they would add an exception to the license that they use, or upgrade to version 3 of the GPL (which I believe will have an optional excemption built in).
But that's impossible, I hear you say, because Linus does not require copyright assignment along with the patches he accepts! In that case, IBM should have released OpenAFS under a compatible license in the first place.
FYI, ffmpeg (the library that pretty much all free software video players uses) has contained a decoder for WVM3 (which this video file is encoded with) for quite some time now.
It's hardly pure luck. If they are trusted enough to be refactoring large portions of code, they will know what they are doing. But just because your driver has been accepted into the Linux kernel does not mean that your job is over. You do have to keep testing and fixing bugs, or the driver will (rightfully) be marked as abandoned and removed from the kernel once it does more harm than good.
If a hardware manufacturer realises this and thinks "bugger that I can't be arsed" then I don't want to have anything to do with their hardware.:)
Well, the kernel hackers' position is quite clear on such matters. If the code is not compatible with the license of the kernel (and hence suitable for inclusion in the kernel itself) then it can rot, they don't care about it.
I don't see what the problem with OpenAFS is. Either it's GPL-compatible, in which case it can be included, or it's not, in which case it can rot.
Yes but 'someone' is usually not the maintainer of the driver; rather, it's the person who wants to make the change that causes the rest of the code to need to be updated.
I invite you to make these comments on the official GPL v3 site. That way, the licence authors and other interested parties will be able to take them into consideration.
There are no EU directives that harmonise the patenting of software accross the EU. That doesn't mean that individual countries don't have a mishmash of existing and conflicting legislation.
FYI, the Error 15 (File Not Found) is probably caused because GRUB (when running from inside Linux) has no way to work out which drive will be presented as 'drive 0' when GRUB is run during the boot process. The only real fix for this is to switch to an architecture with a decent pre-boot environment like Sparc, PowerPC, etc. The work-around is to correct the contents of/boot/grub/device.map and/boot/grub/menu.lst and then re-install GRUB.
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You already had to do that with IBM/Lenovo laptops. That's the company that creates a BIOS that refused to boot if an "unauthorised" card was in the minipci slot.
Yes. If you killed someone outright, their blood would make a mess. You could clean it up with a well-placed water arrow.
Perhaps this only added for Thief 3, however... can't remember.
That is the movie that made me add an extra item to my nuclear war survival kit: a handgun with a bullet each member of my family.
... then the kernel would be encumbered by all the drawbacks of maintaining it. See http://lxr.linux.no/source/Documentation/stable_ap i_nonsense.txt for details.
If the authors of the Linux kernel really cared that much about software under this license then they would add an exception to the license that they use, or upgrade to version 3 of the GPL (which I believe will have an optional excemption built in).
But that's impossible, I hear you say, because Linus does not require copyright assignment along with the patches he accepts! In that case, IBM should have released OpenAFS under a compatible license in the first place.
FYI, ffmpeg (the library that pretty much all free software video players uses) has contained a decoder for WVM3 (which this video file is encoded with) for quite some time now.
[citation needed]
Give it 18 months. Besides, aren't Xboxes 2s sold at loss?
4 months is 4 months too long.
According to NVIDIA, there is no demand at all for free software drivers for NVIDIA hardware.
It's hardly pure luck. If they are trusted enough to be refactoring large portions of code, they will know what they are doing. But just because your driver has been accepted into the Linux kernel does not mean that your job is over. You do have to keep testing and fixing bugs, or the driver will (rightfully) be marked as abandoned and removed from the kernel once it does more harm than good.
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If a hardware manufacturer realises this and thinks "bugger that I can't be arsed" then I don't want to have anything to do with their hardware.
Well, the kernel hackers' position is quite clear on such matters. If the code is not compatible with the license of the kernel (and hence suitable for inclusion in the kernel itself) then it can rot, they don't care about it.
I don't see what the problem with OpenAFS is. Either it's GPL-compatible, in which case it can be included, or it's not, in which case it can rot.
Yes but 'someone' is usually not the maintainer of the driver; rather, it's the person who wants to make the change that causes the rest of the code to need to be updated.
You should get your modules included in the Linux kernel itself.
Well, he did say he was a Debian user! ;)
Doesn't matter since I'd wipe whatever came with it and slap Debian on it anyway. :)
Hm, I thought IE7 implemented adjacent sibling selectors?
I invite you to make these comments on the official GPL v3 site. That way, the licence authors and other interested parties will be able to take them into consideration.
For instance, check out http://www.mp3licensing.com/patents/index.html. Each patent is filed separately in many EU countries.
There are no EU directives that harmonise the patenting of software accross the EU. That doesn't mean that individual countries don't have a mishmash of existing and conflicting legislation.
What part of "this was before the two CDs were combined into one" don't you understand?
FYI, the Error 15 (File Not Found) is probably caused because GRUB (when running from inside Linux) has no way to work out which drive will be presented as 'drive 0' when GRUB is run during the boot process. The only real fix for this is to switch to an architecture with a decent pre-boot environment like Sparc, PowerPC, etc. The work-around is to correct the contents of /boot/grub/device.map and /boot/grub/menu.lst and then re-install GRUB.