There's now no 3D support in gNewSense!
There's now no 3D support in gNewSense!
Posted May 3, 2008 18:59 UTC (Sat) by tajyrink (subscriber, #2750)In reply to: There's now no 3D support in gNewSense! by sbergman27
Parent article: Get DeltaH, gNewSense 2.0
Dunno about extremists, Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE/all want to have non-free stuff separated at least, and preferably not part of the distribution itself, and if what gNewSense has done is entirely making sense then there's some stuff to ponder for all distros. There are a few thing to consider, namely that the files are hugely important and if the GLX/SGI licenses are actually very strictly non-free or more like annoyingly non-free-like but not necessarily absolutely non-free. Also how much an effort would be needed for relicensing if necessary. The fact that gNewSense has guts to take an important part away which they have doubts about does not make them extremists in my opinion, just people who keep up the good work on investigating this stuff. Without DFSG, FSF definitions etc. we all would be in a swamp of uncertainty, even though the random Joe User does not care that much as long as it works.
Posted May 5, 2008 15:24 UTC (Mon)
by drag (guest, #31333)
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There's now no 3D support in gNewSense!
In this case it's something that is worth noting, maybe even requesting a licensing change,
but I doubt it's worth actually worrying about or removing major pieces of functionality.