while we're waiting for Fedora Core (GA) ...

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Wed Nov 5 03:25:42 UTC 2003


William Hooper (whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net) said: 
> The "Driverloader" section has a license the resembles pine:
> "Redistribution of this software is only permitted for exact copies
> (without modification) of versions explicitly marked and officially
> released by Linuxant with the word "free" in their name."
> 
> This unfortunately makes it just as bad to try to maintain as closed
> source.  Even if someone fixes a bug and/or security issue they can't
> redistribute it.

It also has a binary-only component to it, unless I'm missing
something...

Bill





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