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> Some of us will NEVER accept ZFS's licensing. And yet the kernel community has been remarkably relaxed about Intel's golden screwdriver code and NVidia's bin
by rodgerd 4y ago
> Some of us will NEVER accept ZFS's licensing.
And yet the kernel community has been remarkably relaxed about Intel's golden screwdriver code and NVidia's binary blobs. Nothing if not inconsistent.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoI'm actually curious; did anybody ever offer an explanation for why Nvidia can ship a binary driver with a tiny shim and not get any blowback while ZFS shipping an open source driver with a small GPL shim gets everyone up in arms?
- cowtools 4y ago>Nvidia can ship a binary driver with a tiny shim and not get any blowback The opposite is true for every linux circle I am familiar with.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y agoNobody likes them, but unless I missed something nobody's suggesting for instance that it's illegal for them to be distributing their modules either
- zokier 4y agogregkh has said this about binary modules > It's just that I'm so damn tired of this whole thing. I'm tired of people thinking they have a right to violate my copyright all the time. I'm tired of people and companies somehow treating our license in ways that are blatantly wrong and feeling fine about it. Because we are a loose band of a lot of individuals, and not a company or legal entity, it seems to give companies the chutzpah to feel that they can get away with violating our license. See also https://lwn.net/Articles/603131/ https://lwn.net/Articles/603131/ among others
- rodgerd 4y agoSure, but he's never taken any action against Nvidia, whereas he has against OpenZFS (which is open source, I note).
- ttybird2 4y agoBecause they fear pissing off nvidia. Everyone wants their gpu to work after all.
- rodgerd 4y agoYes, but are those Linux circles are committing changes to cripple Nvidia's stuff?