Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:54:03 +0100 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel |
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On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:47:02AM +0200, Dennis Freise wrote: > > isn't the 2.5 AGP GPL licensed? How can ATI then include it in a bin > > only module ? .... > > The ATI drivers are NOT binary-only!
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/agp/binary.shtml
> agpgart (modified by ATI, I suppose) is > included in form of sourcecode, being compiled on installation. Dunno what > else could violate GPL :)
Linking GPL code to binary .o files, and then disabling the MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") smells pretty fishy to me.
Dave
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