Hi Rebecca

Rebecca J. Walter schrieb:
> The GPL violation has nothing to do with what server it is placed on.  The 
> entire point is that using the drivers is a violation of the GPL.

If you follow the kernel policy, agreed so far. The future will show,
what a judge would say about it. IMHO, this answer is not so clear.

> By distributing them, Novell would be violating the GPL and supporting 
> violation 
> of the GPL. 

The latter I can agree, but please, what is the link between a driver
violating the GPL and the interdiction to distribute this driver? IMHO
this is nowhere written in the GPL, can you please tell us on which
facts/laws/licences this conclusion is based on?

> For obvious reasons, this isn't something the company wants to 
> do.  What you want to do is your problem and you'll have to face the legal 
> consequences.

Exactly, it should be the choice of the user, not of the distributor.
But to get this choice, the distributor has to deliver the binaries, too.

Ciao
Siegbert

P.S.: Sorry Rebecca, I forgot to change the To: to the list, so you will
get this twice.
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