Re: New licence and driver SDK ?

Nicolas Boulay wrote:
> It avoid proprietary fork. It avoid to close the code add 1% of line, make it 
> uncompatible to keep your customers. That's exactly what append to spice (a 
> cad tools, used everywhere but each version is incompatible).

Unfortunately, in today's graphics market, preventing that means
preventing companies from providing drivers for their boards since
they don't want their trade secrets made public.  You have the choice
of not supporting those practices if you don't mind not getting all
the performance out of your hardware that you paid for when you bought
it, but applying the GPL to an X distribution takes that choice away
from everyone who uses it.

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