Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263956AbTIIHv1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 03:51:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263965AbTIIHv1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 03:51:27 -0400 Received: from pix-525-pool.redhat.com ([66.187.233.200]:16199 "EHLO lacrosse.corp.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263956AbTIIHv0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Sep 2003 03:51:26 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:50:24 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Alan Cox Cc: Dennis Freise , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel Message-ID: <20030909075023.GA8065@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Alan Cox , Dennis Freise , Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <001a01c3765b$1f1ad6e0$0419a8c0@firestarter.shnet.org> <20030908225401.GD681@redhat.com> <1063069344.28622.53.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1063069344.28622.53.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 815 Lines: 21 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 -- Dave Jones http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/