Re: FW: press release - new network driver architecture

[Helge Hafting]

> 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