Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel

Mika Liljeberg
2003-09-09T18:16:04Z

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 20:53, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:41:47PM +0300, Mika Liljeberg wrote:
> > > 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.
>
> The 'additional rights' on AGPGART come from the time when
> it was in the XFree86 tree. If anything its dual-license
> GPL & X11. The problem with 'additional rights' tags in
> drivers is they rarely state what those rights are.

Yeah, it's all wonderfully vague. If there are 'additional rights' I
would expect to see the exact license (or a reference to the license) at
the top of each source file.

MikaL