Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel

Dave Jones
2003-09-08T22:55:14Z

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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