Hi,
I only have one small question, which is the exact treatment of auto-install mechanisms. I was hoping to use a auto-downloader to make the installation process easier. Do you consider it problematic if I use the auto-downloader to grab the SDRIO installer and execute it (not individual drivers, but rather the installer as a whole)?
Yes, it's a problem.
It seems strange to me that there should be a difference between a user manually clicking a download link and running a program versus the program downloading automatically, but I understand that this is a gray area.
If the process was automatic, there would effectively be no difference between shipping it with it directly and so this is clearly a circumvention mechanism by which you try to "work around" the GPL to achieve the same result as distributing both component as a whole.
The entire point of the GPL is to give "an edge" / "an advantage" to software that are also GPL. Hence forcing the application to be less practical, more of a burden to the user if it's not GPL is a _design_goal_ ...
Cheers,
Sylvain