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Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot

Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot

Posted Sep 10, 2012 12:28 UTC (Mon) by Aissen (subscriber, #59976)
In reply to: Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot by cortana
Parent article: Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot

> Is this legal, what with nvidia.ko being a derived work of both the kernel and NVIDIA's proprietary driver?

Oh yeah. It depends who you ask. It hasn't been taken to court yet.

Note that the nvidia module uses an GPL layer that then loads the nvidia binary and does the link between the two.


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Preparing the kernel for UEFI secure boot

Posted Sep 10, 2012 12:44 UTC (Mon) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

It seems my assumption was wrong. Debian distributes a pre-built nvidia.ko for each of its stock kernels, and if the ftpmasters can be convinced that it's OK then it probably is OK. :)

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