Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel

[Dave Jones]

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.

		Dave

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