As a non-ftpmaster decision (feel free to poke an actual master), and 100% only me, as a human, I agree with everything Ben said.
Paul On Feb 18, 2016 6:15 PM, "Ben Hutchings" <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 18 Feb 2016 22:41:02 +0100 Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> > wrote: > > control: tags -1 + moreinfo > > > > Hi Julian, > > > > could you please cite those "lawyers and people" or explain their > arguments? > > (Not that citing a lawyer neccessarily means anything, but just stating > some > > lawyers think something is not even enough to think about removing a > package > > from the archive.) > > > > And the ZFS situation is not comparable because that one is about a > > incompatability of two different licences… > > It is very much comparable. The CDDL is a free software licence but it > has different requirements from the GPL and doesn't allow relicensing > to follow the GPL's copyleft provision, so you can't distribute a work > derived from two works under the two licences. Similarly, the Nvidia > licence says we have no right to source code for, or even the right to > attempt to decompile, the binary blob they provide, and doesn't allow > relicensing either the blob or provided source code to follow the GPL's > copyleft provision. Once they are combined with a GPL'd work, the > combination is not legally distributable. > > As for the idea that the nvidia kernel driver is an independent work: > the part provided as source code uses Linux specific kernel APIs such > as procfs, CPU hotplug notifiers and seq_file, and provides wrappers > for the console_lock and console_unlock functions that can then be > called by the blob. > > Ben. > > -- > Ben Hutchings > Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
