GPLv3 and Mobile Phones
Oleg Gusev
oleg at crista.uni-wuppertal.de
Sat Dec 9 13:42:38 CET 2006
Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 13:24 schrieb Gabriel Ambuehl:
>
> Supposedly even that is too proprietary (I think we were over this at some
> point)...
I guess you are booting your computer from linuxbios ? :)
> But then a closed GPS daemon is ok just because it doesnt live in
> kernel.
Closed GPS daemon is not a smart idea from the very beginning.
AFAIK it does not load anything to the receiver, and only processes
the incoming data.
> So if we can figure out a way to have WiFi drivers run in userspace
> that might be ok?
It is unethical behaviour and defeats the idea of Openmoko.
Such approach is already implemented by wince ;)
Oleg.
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