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SubjectRe: Would I be violating the GPL?
David Schwartz wrote:

>>If you even take 2 minutes to actually inspect the NVIDIA video
>>driver sources
>>(extract the .run file with --extract-only, and cd to usr/src/nv)
>>you'll find
>>the "glue" which is provided as source, but not under the GPL,
>>does indeed
>>#include kernel headers at compile time.
>>
>>It does not distribute them, however, but it is completely nonsensical to
>>class this as having "no dependency". It has a compile time and runtime
>>dependency on the current kernel. What driver wouldn't?
>>
>>
>
> If I write source code that includes "stdio.h", I can do whatever I want
>with that source code, and I'm not bound by the license of any particular
>file that happens to be called "stdio.h". On the other hand, if I compile
>that source code including *your* "stdio.h" file, the resulting compiled
>output is likely a derived work of your file.
>
> So the source code is not a derivative work of any GPL'd files. The
>compiled driver may be, precisely because it contains bits and pieces of the
>header files.
>
> DS
>
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Correct.

Jeff
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