Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel | From | Mika Liljeberg <> | Date | Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:41:47 +0300 |
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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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