Pointless ideology?

Pointless ideology?

Posted Sep 2, 2004 11:42 UTC (Thu) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Pointless ideology? by bchilds
Parent article: Pointless ideology?

As far as I know, it's an issue of whether the binary driver is a derivative work of the kernel, or not. If it's a body of code that was mostly written on another platform, and only the interfaces were ported to the Linux kernel, then no, it probably isn't derivative. (See the nVidia driver, for instance.) On the other hand, if the module in question uses a lot of internal kernel interfaces, hooks into various other subsystems, etc, then it probably IS derivative. This is a very tricky issue, though.

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