Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license" of Linux

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 20 Dec 1998 04:59:43 +0000 (GMT)

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> The 3dfx.o module has source code... It's basically a module which
> mmap's the card's registers and provides a few ioctl's for Glide
> (binary-only, userspace) to use.

The 3dfx module was rejected not because of binary only issues, but because
its completely useless. Any user can crash a machine with that module loaded,
so the library still needs to be root only.

Alan

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