On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 04:03:47PM +0100, Josef Söntgen wrote: > Now a user of the Genode framework, as in someone who builds a system or > rather a product with Genode, may care about having support for a > certain piece of hardware where only a proprietary binary-only driver is > provided by the vendor. But again, the vendor will not provide the > driver for Genode out of the blue without a given incentive. In this > case the user can pay the vendor to provide the driver (and also has to > pay for future updates). If it is a proprietary product there is already > a commercial Genode license involved and everything is fine. If it is a > non-proprietary product, that obviously is a problem because the binary > only driver may not be used (the most fitting example that comes to my > mind is someone who wants to use the open-source version of Genode in an > automotive context using NVidias Terga Drive platform and has to hire > NVidia to port their binary-only driver to Genode).
Shouldn't the user be able to buy a product, rip the proprietary code out and use that in their free version? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ genode-main mailing list genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main
