On 8/21/07, Chris Travers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are nVidia's closed source driver components for Linux a GPL violation? If > so, why has nobody tried to enforce this over the substantial time that this > has been going on? Thus does the GPL actually guarantee the user any rights > that the LGPL does not?
FWIW, nVidia and others are able to distribute a binary blob without violating the GPL because the binary blob is not compiled or linked against any of the kernel headers. The end-user runs a script which links the blob against the kernel headers to produce a loadable kernel module. Once linked; the end user is free to use the kernel modules however he whats, but he is not free to distribute it. Cheers, g. -- Grant Likely, B.Sc., P.Eng. Secret Lab Technologies Ltd. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (403) 399-0195 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
