GPL concerns maintain user freedom

Posted May 16, 2006 10:01 UTC (Tue) by jpetso (subscriber, #36230)
In reply to: GPL concerns maintain user freedom by einstein
Parent article: GPL concerns halt Kororaa live CD (NewsForge)

> BTW nvidia claims to have legal obligations not to disclose the
> intellectual property of other parties which is contained in the
> hardware specs and API. OK, sounds entirely possible to me.

Quoting http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513-6061491.html :
> For Nvidia, intellectual property is a secondary issue. "It's so hard
> to write a graphics driver that open-sourcing it would not help," said
> Andrew Fear, Nvidia's software product manager.

While I disagree with the reasoning for not open-sourcing the driver, it
is indeed stated here that those legal obligations you are speaking of
are for naught.