On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 15:50 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote: > Peter Gordon wrote: > > Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote: > > > >> The Nvidia drivers (or ATI ones) are not 'illegal'. The slides you point > >> to doesn't even claim they are. [...] > > > > > > No disrespect intended, but did you even read those slides? The 13th > > slide that Greg KH has on his site explicitly states - in big bold red > > lettering: "Closed source Linux kernel modules are illegal." > > The problem is obviously that it's not up to him to decide. I think you're mistaken there. Since Greg is one of the authors of the kernel, to a large degree it IS up to him to decide under what terms people get to use the parts of the kernel he wrote. Now Greg is a nice guy and he makes them available under a restricted but open license (generally called "GPL version 2"), but still. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
