From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Dennis Freise <Cataclysm@final-frontier.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 23:54:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030908225401.GD681@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <001a01c3765b$1f1ad6e0$0419a8c0@firestarter.shnet.org>
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 12:47:02AM +0200, Dennis Freise wrote:
> > isn't the 2.5 AGP GPL licensed? How can ATI then include it in a bin
> > only module ? ....
>
> The ATI drivers are NOT binary-only!
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/agp/binary.shtml
> agpgart (modified by ATI, I suppose) is
> included in form of sourcecode, being compiled on installation. Dunno what
> else could violate GPL :)
Linking GPL code to binary .o files, and then disabling the
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") smells pretty fishy to me.
Dave
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Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-08 22:55 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 [this message]
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
2003-09-09 17:53 ` Dave Jones
2003-09-09 18:16 ` Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-09 21:00 ` Alan Cox
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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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