From: Tristan Wibberley <bloater@ps.cus.umist.ac.uk>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 14:03:53 +0000

Re: GGI on Hurd? Andreas?

On Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 03:16:24PM -0500, David Waite wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: marcus@stacken.kth.se [mailto:marcus@stacken.kth.se]On Behalf Of
> > Marcus Sundberg
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 1999 9:25 PM
> > To: ggi-develop@eskimo.com
> > Subject: Re: GGI on Hurd? Andreas?
> >
> >
> > Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
> > >         I could swear that I heard some rumors some time ago
> > about someone
> > > getting GGI to work on Hurd.
> >
> > Well, Andy is porting KGI to an OS, but it isn't Hurd, and I'm not
> > allowed to say anymore. ;-)
> >
> 
> I am interested in working on GGI/KGI/GII/etc. on Hurd. I managed to get
> Hurd installed before I lost my memory and video card in my machine =P
> 
> Hopefully when Uncle Sam returns some of the money he stole from all my
> paychecks,I'll be able to replace them. =)
> 
> Hurd sounds very interesting to me, but as I'm sure people have hurd (har,
> har) me say before, I'm nervous about the ability of binary-only device
> drivers on Hurd. I know RMS critisized Linus's decision to change the
> license of the Linux Kernel to allow for binary-only drivers.
> 
> I'm going to mess around with Hurd to see if a binary driver is possible by
> the license, if so, then I will probably port KGI to it. If not, I will
> probably just delete the partition.
> 

As long as the binary only driver writer doesn't copy anything where the
copyright holder restricts the copying of that code (and we don't for KGI
drivers), RMS and his Free Software Foundation cannot stop them.

You just need to alter the Hurd console server (or whatever they have), and
make it accept the KGI drivers. It will probably be very easy once Andy's
fixed SUIDKGI - you can use that. I plan to get debian-HURD sometime so I
could possibly help.

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Tristan Wibberley