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[Jason Harris]

Thanks for the clarification, and congratulations on getting them to GPL 
the Linux stuff.

Jason

Chris Curran wrote:
> If I may correct a misconception... The SBIG driver is not proprietary. 
> It's distributed under the GPL. The SBIG Universal Library is what's not 
> (currently) GPL and could rightly be called "proprietary". It took me 
> close to a year to get SBIG to GPL the driver. I suspect the rest will 
> come in time...
> 
> BTW: I do not speak for SBIG. I am not an employee of SBIG. I do their 
> Linux development, and in exchange they GPL anything I do. This is the 
> part that took so long. They just couldn't understand why anyone would 
> work for "free"...
> 
> cheers,
> Chris Curran
> 
>> We're already using GHNS fro data that Debian considers "not Free 
>> enough", so no, there's no problem with making a proprietary driver 
>> available.  Of course, we need to make it very clear that the download 
>> is proprietary and closed, so that the user can decide whether they 
>> could sleep at night, if they were to taint their system in this way ;)
>>
>> Jason
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