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>,
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On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 20:53, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 08:41:47PM +0300, Mika Liljeberg wrote:
>  > > 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.
> 
> The 'additional rights' on AGPGART come from the time when
> it was in the XFree86 tree. If anything its dual-license
> GPL & X11.  The problem with 'additional rights' tags in
> drivers is they rarely state what those rights are.

Yeah, it's all wonderfully vague. If there are 'additional rights' I
would expect to see the exact license (or a reference to the license) at
the top of each source file.

	MikaL

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