Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 02 Feb 2006 13:11:50 -0600 | | From | "Christopher Friesen" <> | | Subject | Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders |
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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
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