Moinak Ghosh writes:
>    This is admittedly a grey area there is a good writeup on this
>    topic at the Kororaa website after one Linux kernel developer
>    accused them of violating GPL:
> 
>    http://kororaa.org/static.php?page=gpl
> 
>    In any case Nvidia itself explicitly allows redistribution.

I'd be more worried if I were the author of such a module.  I don't
see how you could develop a kernel module for Linux that isn't
considered to be "based on" the GPLv2 kernel itself and thus forced to
be released as source to anyone who receives the binaries.

Of course, if someone can legally fracture the viral nature of GPLv2,
that might be good news in general ...

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