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Lee Revell wrote: > What nvidia is doing is already illegal under the GPLv2. I don't think that's been legally proven. The question is whether it is a derivative work. If their driver core (aka the binary blob) is common to all their drivers (across multiple OS's), it could be argued that the binary blob itself is not a derivative work. One could almost view it as firmware. If they ship the binary blob as well as code that interfaces the binary blob with the kernel, and the end-user compiles the code together and loads it into the kernel, does that necessarily violate the GPL? Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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