On Wed, 20 Mar 2019, at 21:20, Nicolas George wrote: > Jean-Baptiste Kempf (12019-03-20): > > 2) Both of those are addressing drivers for actual cards. > > So we're not talking about userland, but accessing drivers which are > > part of the OS, and are therefore exempted by the GPL. > > I am not sure I agree with that interpretation. The wording is quite > [...] > It is not relevant for drivers, because drivers are not called directly, > [...] > That is my interpretation. Furthermore, the wording makes the case of
This is the current interpretation by most people from the FSF and people from the open source legal community: "drivers and libraries installed usually with the drivers" are covered by the GPL exception. I checked last time with Bradley and Karen, but I can re-check next time I talk to them, if you do wish. -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf - President +33 672 704 734 _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org https://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel