control: tags -1 - moreinfo Hi Ben,
On Freitag, 19. Februar 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> [...] 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.
thanks for taking the time to briefly explain the problems at hand.
cheers,
Holger
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