On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 04:03:47PM +0100, Josef Söntgen wrote:
Now a user of the Genode framework, as in someone who builds a system or rather a product with Genode, may care about having support for a certain piece of hardware where only a proprietary binary-only driver is provided by the vendor. But again, the vendor will not provide the driver for Genode out of the blue without a given incentive. In this case the user can pay the vendor to provide the driver (and also has to pay for future updates). If it is a proprietary product there is already a commercial Genode license involved and everything is fine. If it is a non-proprietary product, that obviously is a problem because the binary only driver may not be used (the most fitting example that comes to my mind is someone who wants to use the open-source version of Genode in an automotive context using NVidias Terga Drive platform and has to hire NVidia to port their binary-only driver to Genode).
Shouldn't the user be able to buy a product, rip the proprietary code out and use that in their free version?