This is NOT about interfaces!

This is NOT about interfaces!

Posted Nov 10, 2005 9:20 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to: This is NOT about interfaces! by khim
Parent article: Debian and Nexenta collide

> [A]ll distributions who actually ship
> NVIDIA's binary driver on the same CD
> as linux kernel are in trouble: they
> are violating GPL - for exactly the
> same reason. Nobody tried to sue them
> yet (AFAIK, anyway) but it's clear
> copyright violation.

They haven't been sued, but they are under notice from some of the kernel
hackers to cease and desist or face legal action.

See the LWN kernel page quote of the week for the Oct. 26 edition (quoting
Greg K-H). There's quite a discussion there as well, including a couple
rather long "expositions" on the legal details of the GPL and how they
relate to binary kernel modules, by yours truly. =8^)

http://lwn.net/Articles/157225/

Duncan

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