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Scott Cutler scott at scottcutler.netFair enough. I will keep the distributions totally independent. Thanks again for the advice! -Scott On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Sylvain Munaut <246tnt at gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.osmocom.org/pipermail/osmocom-sdr/attachments/20140228/7b4b7ae3/attachment.htm>