On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 08:51:19PM +1000, Gerald wrote: > Please read the enclosure from Chris at kororaa.org. > Or go to his site at : > www.kororaa.org > and see what you think of the response Chis had to his required > Clarification. > Gerald
As far as I can tell, this whole thing stems from the XGL Live CD that was linked the nvidia binary modules on the fly. It does not make linux illegal, it just highlights the fact that the binary modules are on a very tenuous legal footing. The e-mail to me seems to be saying that Nvidia and ATI with their binary modules are violating the terms of the GPL, and therefore anyone who distributes the modules linked with the kernel (as was done on kororaa) is violating the terms. In contrast, distributing the source and a binary module is not illegal since it has not been compiled against the kernel yet. It is not illegal to do this, just illegal to redistribute it. But I'm not a lawyer, and I'm sure other people have their own interpretations. I just remember the history of this story and some of the original debate surrounding it. Byron -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
