From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: 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, 9 Sep 2003 08:50:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030909075023.GA8065@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1063069344.28622.53.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk>
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.
Dave
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Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-09 7:51 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 [this message]
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
-- 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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