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SubjectRe: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel
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On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:50, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 02:02:25AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > Linking GPL code to binary .o files, and then disabling the
> > > MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") smells pretty fishy to me.
> >
> > If all the code they include is their own then they could have dual
> > licensed it. If not and they are modifying core kernel code to add hooks
> > for their code they aren't likely to get past the preliminary arguments
> > about a GPL violation and it being a derivative work.
>
> For one it links in the GPL'd nvidia GART module.

Hmm, dunno about that:

$ grep -i license nvidia-agp.c
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights");

All the rest seems to be under a BSD style license.

MikaL

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