Messages in this thread | | | From | "David Schwartz" <> | Subject | RE: Would I be violating the GPL? | Date | Wed, 16 Nov 2005 07:26:55 -0800 |
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> If you even take 2 minutes to actually inspect the NVIDIA video > driver sources > (extract the .run file with --extract-only, and cd to usr/src/nv) > you'll find > the "glue" which is provided as source, but not under the GPL, > does indeed > #include kernel headers at compile time. > > It does not distribute them, however, but it is completely nonsensical to > class this as having "no dependency". It has a compile time and runtime > dependency on the current kernel. What driver wouldn't?
If I write source code that includes "stdio.h", I can do whatever I want with that source code, and I'm not bound by the license of any particular file that happens to be called "stdio.h". On the other hand, if I compile that source code including *your* "stdio.h" file, the resulting compiled output is likely a derived work of your file.
So the source code is not a derivative work of any GPL'd files. The compiled driver may be, precisely because it contains bits and pieces of the header files.
DS
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