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Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL 843

Posted by Zonk on Sunday May 14, 2006 @05:19PM from the penguin-is-confused dept.

AlanS2002 writes "The Kororaa Project, a pre-configured binary install method for Gentoo Linux which bundles nVidia's and ATI binary drivers in its Kororaa Xgl Live CD , has put its Live CD on hold after being accused of violating the GPL. The issue appears to be the distribution of the Linux Kernel and nVidia's/ATI binary drivers together. When the binary drivers are built the GPL'ed code is included in the binary result, which is a violation."

Comment Re:IBM should buy out this application (Score 1) 108

by Komodowaran on Sunday February 19, 2006 @04:30PM (#14756107) Attached to: Open Source Forcing Shift in Software Buying

IBM should buy out this application

Should it, really? Did you say 'IBM'? Or was it, ehm, Lenovo?

You know, the concept behind EIO is not at all new. It was revolutionary 10 years ago, but now we have better implementations of what here has been done in JVM.

Kudos to EIO developers, though. The product is seemingly quite usable, given the confined space of Java layer, and a strange data format which has been given an unappropriate importance.

I'd never waste a second thought on a concept like this. It might be quite a deed for an academic comunity to push it. Given a closed company--or a closed country--it might even prove usable to some extent. However, it has got no chance of survival in the wild. And no such chance should be awarded to it. Ever.

Yours,
Waran

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