On Sat, 17 Aug 2002, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:

> > Yes and no.  Linux is more in the news and popular these days, so you
> > might find user apps coming out for linux before BSD (of course the
> > linux apps will still run on BSD), but some companies will release drivers
> > for BSD before linux so they don't have to give away the source code. (GPL
> > vs BSD license).
> 
> Actually, you don't have to release source code for binary-only drivers in
> Linux.

You have to release the source code if you release under GPL, and if you 
don't release under GPL it's not ending up on disk 1 of the Red Hat 
distro. AFAIK, everything on disk 1 has to be open source.  Forgot why 
though.


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