On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 08:11:47AM -0800, Jeff Bailey wrote:
>
> There's also the side problem that the Linux kernel contains hundreds
> (thousands?) of drivers that any given person isn't going to need. I
> think that having the drivers in a separate repository (and then
> possibly in a collection of different modules, depending on
> arch/need/etc) is probably nicer anyway to keep the amount that one
> needs to download to a minimum.
I like this idea, but then i have a question. can a system component
whose copyright is not transferred to the FSF become an essential part
of the GNU system? because when the Hurd runs on L4, userspace drivers
will be essential.
--
Robert Millan
"Omnis enim res, quad dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur,
nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est."
"For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is
not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared."
Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)
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