On 5/4/07, Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oh please, isn't a bit silly to play the dmca card here? We're past moralizing about whether it's a crime to have proper hardware-accelerated OpenGL. Clearly, the nvidia driver is not a dervative work of the linux kernel, otherwise how does it run so well on windoze, freebsd and solaris?
This is nothing todo with the DMCA. Have a look at the source of the nvidia driver shim (which is available, but not GPLed) you wil see it links to GPLed kernel components. Making it illegal to distribute under normal copyright law unless it is also GPLed. I suggest you read the GPL FAQ at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html . It is not a crime to use the nvidia drivers , it merely infringes copyright to /distribute/ them. GPL only applies to distribution. _ Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
