"Greg M. Johnson"  wrote in message <44de6136@news.povray.org>:
>> I know of no distribution with "pure GPL or die" policy.
> You need to get out more.  SUSE took out the wifi driver from 10.1
> arbritrarily at the last moment because it was decided that they weren't
> going to ship a non-GPL driver.  Wrecking usability for the user with
> contempt for the dogma of open source.

Does not SuSE include X.org (X11 license)? OpenSSL (BSD-style licence _with_
the advertising clause, and thus GPL-incompatible)?

The problem with non-GPL kernel modules is not that they are not GPL, it is
that they violate the GPL. You can use them, but the licence of the kernel
forbids to distribute binaries versions.

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