Re: GPL and Nvidia

From: Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 19:33:30 EST


On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Dan Egli wrote:

> them. Are the absolute best cards? No. Do they have every legal right to
> publish drivers the way they do? Yes.

well... that isnt actually very clear. AIUI, they rely on informal
exceptions made by Linus (in posts to l-k) to the kernel's licence
re: exported interfaces and binary modules.

regards,

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