On Sat, 2002-03-02 at 01:39, Ben Reser wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 02:09:03PM -0500, David Walluck wrote: > > be held responsible for *commercial* drivers though (What's with the > > kernel complaining about the licenses though? Is it illegal to have > > non-GPL modules? I think this is a patch that was added to the mdk > > kernel.). Anyway, I like the speed increase of the NVIDIA drivers, but > > the stability should come first. > > David, > > This was discussed ages ago. IIRC it's not a Mandrake patch but > something that was added upstream to the kernel. I guess if you don't > add some flag to your module it whines. The intent here was to keep > commercial module complaignts and bugs off the linux kernel mailing > lists. >
Alan Cox email explaining this: http://lwn.net/2001/0906/a/ac-license.php3 =--= kk1
