nomasteryoda's Journal: Novell Dumps Non-GPL Kernel

This is not good for users who regularly use Non-GPL kernel modules supplied by SuSE or otherwise.
Quoting
http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-announce/2006-Feb/0004.html
non-GPL kernel modules:
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Most developers of the kernel community consider
non-GPL kernel modules to be infringing on their
copyright. Novell does respect this position, and will
no longer distribute non-GPL kernel modules as part of
future products. Novell is working with vendors to find
alternative ways to provide the functionality that was
previously only available with non-GPL kernel modules.
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Kernel Changes / km_, kmp, and kernel-flavor-nongpl packages:
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We added support to cleanly handle packages that contain kernel
modules by representing the dependencies of mouldes on the kernel ABI
as rpm dependencies. This allows third party modules to be provided
and integrated cleanly.

Modules that were previously included in our kernel packages using the
km_ package mechanism [1] have been converted to the new package
format [2]; the km_ mechanism is no longer supported. Packages that
contain additional kernel modules are now named name-kmp-kernelflavor
(e.g., wlan-kmp-default. lirc-kmp-smp).

The kmp mechanism [2] supports creating and using additional Kernel Module
Packages easily and reliably.

The kernel-kernelflavor-nongpl packages which contained modules that
had non-GPL licenses have been removed.

[1] The km_ package mechanism is described at
http://www.suse.de/~agruen/kernel-doc/.

[2] Kernel Module Packages Manual for CODE10,
http://www.suse.de/~agruen/KMPM/