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From: Andy G. <an...@wa...> - 2002-08-23 10:39:57
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Stefan Reinauer wrote: >>If there is a licence conflict, hasn't it already been broken by the >>distribution of nvnet.o with the current version of xbox linux? > > > Probably, yes. SuSE does not deliver this with it's distribution, but > rather contains a bunch of scripts downloading it for you. Same applies > for some Truetype Fonts (here you even have to acknowledge the licenses > to these) :-( This discussion doesn't seem to be helping. nVidia put their object code driver out for use by the free software community, we're using it. They didn't want to share (for their own stupid reasons) information about the register-level detail of the chip. We are respecting that. And frankly if the GPL is trying to tell me that I CAN'T make a GPL project that interoperates with a .o file, yet does not include as part of the project, then something is busted with the GPL and we should release under a GPL.xboxlinux license which is exactly the same but allows this. Andy's brain says: ignore all this pointless nonproductive amateur lawyer crud and if someone feels we're doing them down they can say and we will react. In the meanwhile, do the needful. I can see why the GPL might want to encourage totally clean licenses and no funny dependences. But in our situation, with an externally mandated box and the one architechture to get going, its just burdensome. >>And are we just looking at getting a replacement driver from the etherboot >>project? Or are we looking at remote booting the xbox? I'd be happier with a >>standalone box, not dependant on being served it's boot image. I hope that >>will still be an option. > > remote booting is the way to go as long as you develop the basic system > functionality. As soon as it's possible to install Linux natively you > will very likely not need it. Etherboot will be another way to bring up the box under user control, that's all. Its not removing choices but adding them. It seems from the people using what it out there so far the CD boot route is currently preferred. In the future we will be installing a distro to HDD too. Personally I am an embedded trog and I am booting it from the flash (although I will probably move to Etherboot thus removing space problems). So whatever you like it will still be there. -Andy |
