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From: Mika Liljeberg <mika.liljeberg@welho.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Dennis Freise <Cataclysm@final-frontier.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 20:41:47 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063129307.777.8.camel@hades> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030909075023.GA8065@redhat.com>

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:50, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, dunno about that:

$ grep -i license nvidia-agp.c
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights");

All the rest seems to be under a BSD style license.

	MikaL


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-09-09 17:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-08 22:47 New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel Dennis Freise
2003-09-08 22:54 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-09  1:02   ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09  7:50     ` Dave Jones
2003-09-09 13:24       ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09 17:41       ` Mika Liljeberg [this message]
2003-09-09 17:53         ` Dave Jones
2003-09-09 18:16           ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-09 21:00             ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-09-08 23:07 Dennis Freise
2003-09-09  1:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09  1:25   ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-09  8:51     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-09  6:25   ` Matias Alejo Garcia
2003-09-09  5:47     ` Brien B.
2003-09-08 18:05 Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-08 18:18 ` Stian Jordet
2003-09-08 18:27   ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-08 18:41   ` Dave Jones
2003-09-08 19:03     ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-09-08 19:55       ` Dave Jones

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