Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:40 -0500 From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> To: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? Message-ID: <6855087.1054050580287.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com>
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On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 10:40AM, Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> wrote: >On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:32:42 -0500 >David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> wrote: > >> Ugh... the network driver portion of the nforce drivers is *not* >> GPL'd but it >> has a linux only and anti-reverse engineeing clause. >> >> Dave > >Then using the diver on FreeBSD will be a NVidia's license violation, >wouldn't it? One more reason to keep it out of the tree. Just the network driver... the audio driver in the tarball is still GPL'd. Either which way I doubt either driver will go into the tree. I don't see any good reason to stick any of it in the kernel unless its absolutely necessary. I am not a religious person when it comes to licensing. I just don't like GPL style restrictions. > >-- >Alexander Kabaev > >
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