27 Jan
2006
27 Jan
'06
4:05 p.m.
Lee Revell wrote:
The Linux kernel is a GPL'ed application yet
Nvidia gets away with
linking into it. It's widely acknowledged to be illegal, but as the
linking is done by the end user, it's the user who violates the GPL, not
Nvidia.
The end user would only be violating the GPL if they distributed
the kernel with the Nvidia kernel. The GPL bestows more freedom
to the user than it does to the distributor of GPL software.
Erik
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