On 4/7/2010 2:23 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > That said, I'm not sure what you are referring to either. Since > loadable kernel modules are linked in at run-time, they must be GPL (at > least to be shipped legally). NVidia has a GPL'd wrapper that they ship > which loads a binary blob, which is legal for them to do, since it is > actually you who is loading an incompatible thing into the kernel (which > the GPL can have no say over).
I am referring mainly to the NVidia drivers as well as ATi. I wasn't aware of the GPL wrapper. My understand was the kernel was linking directly to the binary blob, which I understand to be a violation of the GPL code. -- . O . O . O . . O O . . . O . . . O . O O O . O . O O . . O O O O . O . . O O O O . O O O
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