Linux-kernel mailing list archive 2000-15,: Re: FW: press release - new network driver architecture

# Re: FW: press release - new network driver architecture

Helge Hafting (helgehaf@idb.hist.no)
Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:12:35 +0200

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> Overall,
> I think that distributing linux with no compilers, no kernel config and
> incomplete includes should not be allowed by the licence. They can be removed
> by the user but should be installed by default and in all preloads by the
> distributor.

This makes sense at first glance, but a licence restriction is too much,
really.
Consider distributions targeted at embedded systems. Consider
floppy-based
distributions. Adding a compiler would be way too much.
And there are lots of other cases. I have two machines
at home, one is old with a 250MB drive. There is no room for gcc on it,
it is
dedicated for word processing and some games. New kernels are compiled
on the
other machine and transferred. A kernel license requiring a gcc install
would
complicate the use of such old machines unnecessarily - even if I could
deinstall
gcc later.

Helge Hafting

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