Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said:
>> Except, they *are* loaded together. >> Making "shim" libraries does not change the licensing rules at all, >> which for the GPL, apply to the complete program. > So then how is it that the NVidia drivers and so forth aren't illegal? > This is precisely how many non-free or GPL incompatible applications > communicate with GPL'ed ones. Because the Linux kernel adds an additional clause, in the form of a statement of the author's interpretation of the license, saying that such modules are okay. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
