Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> Actually, come to think about it, contrary to what I wrote in the
> posting that puzzled you, one can argue that a device driver is a
> piece of software that makes a particular piece of software work,
> using knowledge of its specific characteristics that are outside of
Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What do you mean by `make sure that whatever your module does makes
> sense out of the context of the Linux kernel'?
> I guess that once I will get that sentence I will be able to understand
> why it is difficult to satisfy in the case of hardware driver
> Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > The linux kernel is licensed under a license that is not exactly the GPL.
> > It is the GPL with an extra clause that allows binary modules (to allow
> > support of certain kinds of hardware, and with certain limitations, but
> > this is really *n
Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The linux kernel is licensed under a license that is not exactly the GPL.
> It is the GPL with an extra clause that allows binary modules (to allow
> support of certain kinds of hardware, and with certain limitations, but
> this is really *not* the plac
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Don't like this? choose a different distro. Mandrake, Redhat and Debian,
..
> Some of the software contained in those distributions is not free (e.g:
> Netscape 4.72). But the distribution as a whole is.
I don't know about Mandrake/R
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> >
> > > On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:41, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > > > > job job, someone has to speak for those wh
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:41, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > > > job job, someone has to speak for those who cannt ('cause they are coding
> > > > too much) He _is
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> On Saturday 01 June 2002 02:41, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> > On Fri, 31 May 2002, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > > job job, someone has to speak for those who cannt ('cause they are coding
> > > too much) He _is_ right. The day this will happen a big part of fre
