Binary modules and derived works

Posted Dec 11, 2003 16:55 UTC (Thu) by zmower (subscriber, #3005)
Parent article: Binary modules and derived works

Linus also said about NVidia "I think the NVidia people can probably reasonably honestly say that the code they ported had _no_ Linux origin."

NVidia's "Linux Advantage" document (off their website) says "Allows NVIDIA to easily support numerous operating systems - 95% of all code base is shared between all operating systems".

Sounds to me (but IANAL) like the NVidia binary modules are not derived works and thus legal (if not moral from a Free Software perspective).