Bug#815060: citation needed?

Holger Levsen holger at layer-acht.org
Fri Feb 19 00:17:18 UTC 2016


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Hi Ben,

On Freitag, 19. Februar 2016, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> [...]  Similarly, the Nvidia
> licence says we have no right to source code for, or even the right to
> attempt to decompile, the binary blob they provide, and doesn't allow
> relicensing either the blob or provided source code to follow the GPL's
> copyleft provision.  Once they are combined with a GPL'd work, the
> combination is not legally distributable.
> 
> As for the idea that the nvidia kernel driver is an independent work:
> the part provided as source code uses Linux specific kernel APIs such
> as procfs, CPU hotplug notifiers and seq_file, and provides wrappers
> for the console_lock and console_unlock functions that can then be
> called by the blob.

thanks for taking the time to briefly explain the problems at hand.


cheers,
	Holger
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