On vendredi 23 juin 2017 14:57:05 CEST Guillermo Rozas wrote: > >> Honest question: what is the sense of doing this? If one is using the > >> open source drive on "moral grounds", taking the OpenCL blob from it > >> and using it when convenient doesn't make it any less closed. I > >> confess that I don't know the status of the proprietary drivers for > >> AMD, are they fundamentally worse than the open ones? > > > > There are no functional/usable/not-broken free/open source opencl > > drivers. > > At least if you try to use darktable, and not just run some toy > > benchmarks. > > I get that. What I don't understand is what is the sense of using the > open source driver AND the OpenCL part of the closed one, instead of > directly using the closed source driver. Is more of a philosophical > question :) >
I think it is mostly philosophical for the end user (although using the closed source driver means you have to do a bit more work). It's not at all only philosophical for anyone who has to distribute such closed source drivers, which come with licenses incompatible with the GPL (by definition, as they are closed source...). Remco ____________________________________________________________________________ darktable user mailing list to unsubscribe send a mail to darktable-user+unsubscr...@lists.darktable.org
