Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:17:21 -0400 From: Alexander Kabaev <ak03@gte.com> To: David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> Cc: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: policy on GPL'd drivers? Message-ID: <20030527121721.315eb88c.ak03@gte.com> In-Reply-To: <6855087.1054050580287.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com> References: <6855087.1054050580287.JavaMail.leimy2k@mac.com>
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On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:40 -0500 David Leimbach <leimy2k@mac.com> wrote: > > 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. Well, network driver is a special case as it is this weird binary 'kernel' + OS shim combination which is getting popular lately. Have you thought about getting NVidia's permission to link non-GPLed shims with their binary object? A quick scan through NVidia audio driver sources suggests that the device is very similar to Intel ICH2 AC'97-based cards. Should you see is BSD-led ich.c driver can be reused instead of the Linux driver? -- Alexander Kabaev
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