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Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
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On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 00:31, Paul Jakma wrote:
> So I am not quite sure on what basis one could argue the NVidia 
> driver is not a derivative work, and hence it seems to me the NVidia 
> driver is technically in material breach of GPL.

I would assume Nvidia's view is based on US caselaw on what constitutes
a 'derived work'. The boundaries of copyright are not set by the GPL
authors

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