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Mike Stilson wrote:
| Just to follow up after giving a little more thought...
| The kernel module doesn't taint it since I'm recompiling it from source.
No, you're just recompiling some glue code, the real module is binary only.
| the NVdriver.o module (although it doesn't specifically have a
| MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")) also doesn't have any conflicting or proprietary
| license. Now my understanding might be wrong, but it SHOULDN'T be
| tainting the kernel. Only the X driver (nvidia_drv.o) is closed source.
Yes, it should, in fact I think that kernel developers introduced the
"Tainted" flag specifically for the nvidia module, see this message from
Alan Cox, http://old.lwn.net/2001/0906/a/ac-license.php3, where he states:
"Unfortunately I get so many bug reports caused by the nvidia modules
and people lying when asked if they have them loaded that some kind of
action has to occur, otherwise I'm going to have to stop reading bug
reports from anyone I don't know personally."
Bye
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