From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265299AbUAAFLM (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 00:11:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265300AbUAAFLM (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 00:11:12 -0500 Received: from mtvcafw.sgi.com ([192.48.171.6]:48477 "EHLO rj.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265299AbUAAFLL (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Jan 2004 00:11:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 21:11:01 -0800 From: Paul Jackson To: Karel =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Kulhav=FD?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Compatibility of Nvidia NVNET driver license with GPL Message-Id: <20031231211101.68ba1362.pj@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20031231073101.A474@beton.cybernet.src> References: <20031231073101.A474@beton.cybernet.src> Organization: SGI X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org nVidia's _video_ drivers are mostly proprietary code that is not specific to Linux. They provide a GPL wrapper or shim that, apparently in the view of their lawyers, insulates their proprietary code from GPL license terms. Perhaps their network software is done the same way? -- I won't rest till it's the best ... Programmer, Linux Scalability Paul Jackson 1.650.933.1373