On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:36:31PM -0600, Aaron Toponce wrote: > > 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.
It's the other way around. The proprietary drivers are linking with the kernel (at compile time). -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
