Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL

Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on May 15, 2006

The open source project Kororaa has been accused of violating the GPL, one of the core open source licences.

The numb of the problem is that some pieces of PC hardware have linux divice drivers released under non-GPL licences, which means that while the drivers can be downloaded form the hadrware manufactures website, they cannot built and linked into a kernel which is then redistributed as a whole.

This is a huge issue for LiveCDs like Kororaa, because they would have to download from the website every time they booted.

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		Kororaa Accused of Violating GPL Created by Stuart Yeates (University of Oxford) on May 15, 2006 The open source project Kororaa has been accused of violating the GPL, one of the core open source licences. The numb of the problem is that some pieces of PC hardware have linux divice drivers released under non-GPL licences, which means that while the drivers can be downloaded form the hadrware manufactures website, they cannot built and linked into a kernel which is then redistributed as a whole. This is a huge issue for LiveCDs like Kororaa, because they would have to download from the website every time they booted. Copyright \| Copyright Infringement \| GNU Public License (GPL) \| GPL \| Intellectual Property \| intellectual property rights \| Kororaa \| Open Source Stuart's blog Login or register to post comments 3671 reads
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