I don't want to be the bad guy here and sorry if I insist but licencses should be very carefully read and applied

- They CAN be distrubuted in binary form, they just aren't open-source

Not sure about all modems but from intel site:
Materials are copyrighted and are protected by worldwide copyright laws and treaty provisions. They may not be copied, reproduced, modified, published, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without Intel's prior written permission.

From linuxant site ( conexant modems):
Redistribution. Redistribution of this software is permitted only for non-beta, officially released versions. Redistribution of versions marked "beta" or "lnxtbeta" requires explicit written approval from Linuxant.
Note: non beta software is not yet released

For pctel, motorola I did not find anything


- I think because they are not proprietary and not open-source (the softmodem drivers)

If the softmodems drivers where freely distributable the would surely be in the download cd\s of many distros ( who doesn' t want provide support for modems?)

- Because all that I do are just a bunch of bash scripts, they are "naturaly" open source You can found all of then at /usr/local/bin

Fortunatly kurumin is small so I can download all 220mb burn the cd and then copy the one script I think I need .Would be easyer though if I could download only what I wanted ( e.g. knx-hdinstall)


Don't get me wrong, I realy like kurumin ( I use it and I can't even read portuges )
but If we all don't follow/respect the licensces people can easaly say :
See linux users are just hackers/crackers they don't respect laws, licenses.
SCO already made a big mess of it: (

But why am I talking... I use kurumin, I like it and if I can I will support it.
Keep up the good work, I can't wait for version 2

Mario