On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 2:27 PM, ഓം <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/5/29 Praveen A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/5/28 श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Hi, >>> >>> This topic has numerous aspects e.g. an open firmware allows to boost powers >>> of wireless signals which violates FCC mandates and can cause problems. >>> Other >>> than burrying it in binary blob(worse than a hex dump), there is no other >>> effective measure. >> >> There are vendors who provide completely Free drivers for their >> wireless chips, so this point is moot. See >> http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html for a list of >> cards that has completely Free drivers. >>> >>> More importantly, tainted kernels are illegal and that is an accepted fact. >>> Just that kernel developers don't go after every tainted kernel, does not >>> make them any less legal. >> >> As Rahul already explained, it is illegal to distribute them, but >> there is no restriction on you to taint or even burn the kernel as >> long as you don't distribute it. You don't even have to agree to GPL >> if you are never going to distribute your copy to someone else - do >> whatever you want with your kernel (Freedom 0). GPL only puts >> conditions on distribution (modified or otherwise). >> > > That's like indirectly saying Linux Kernel is not bound by any license!!
What statement of the above paragraph really meant that? > > Thank you for clarifying about the myth! :-) > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm -- bvk-chaitanya -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
