Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel

Alan Cox
2003-09-09T01:03:43Z

On Llu, 2003-09-08 at 23:54, Dave Jones wrote:
> > 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.

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.