nanogui: Licensing
Subject:
Re: Re[2]: Licensing
From:
Alan Cox ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 1999 18:37:25 -0000
Message-Id: <E10hece-0000Tv-00@the-village.bc.nu>
> For example, for years the only floating point emulator available for
> ARM-Linux was a binary-only module (Acorn gave the code to Russell under
> NDA), which caused no end of problems due to the fact that you weren't
> allowed to link it statically to the kernel, and nothing worked if you
> weren't able to load the module for some reason. We don't want to end up
The problem was that someone took Acorn's bait and caused years of mayhem
by not having a free driver. Had freeing the driver been the only option
Acorn would probably have done so.
> in the same position, but I'm not quite sure how to avoid it if we GPL
> everything. Perhaps if we LGPLed the API, but not the core code?
If the client library is LGPL I don't see why people think there is a problem
