Question about licensing of kmods

Till Maas opensource at till.name
Thu Nov 5 19:55:49 CET 2009


On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 11:51:15PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Till Maas wrote:
> > If this is a problem, then it cannot go into any RPMFusion repository,
> > because packages in RPMFusion still need to be legally distributable,
> > even if they are in the nonfree repository.
> 
> All GPL-incompatible kmods are illegal, yet RPM Fusion still ships them.
> 
> So, as kmod-nvidia and others are allowed, I don't see why this one wouldn't 
> be allowed as well.

Is it an official RPMFusion opinion, that these kmods are illegal?
Because then these FAQ entry needs to be adjusted:

http://rpmfusion.org/FAQ#head-3c87307eb360d4f17920dcf064039366de8f58df

Regards
Till
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