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NDISwrapper dodges another bullet

Posted Mar 6, 2008 5:39 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (✭ supporter ✭, #5246)
In reply to: NDISwrapper dodges another bullet by rahvin
Parent article: NDISwrapper dodges another bullet

Apparently, the NVIDIA adapter code sets its license to "NVIDIA", so it doesn't get access to
GPLONLY symbols.  I haven't checked this myself, but I've seen others mention it.

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Posted Mar 6, 2008 8:37 UTC (Thu) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

You are completely right:

$ modinfo nvidia
...
license:        NVIDIA
...