Subject: Re: New ATI FireGL driver supports 2.6 kernel
From: Mika Liljeberg <mika.liljeberg@welho.com>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
       Dennis Freise <Cataclysm@final-frontier.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
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On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:50, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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.

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.

	MikaL

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