> well yes, that's how the blob drivers like NVIDIA do not need to be GPL - > at > least that's what the affected parties claim. >
There is a difference there. The kernel modules are a bit of a special case for some reason. They are only implementing an interface, and they are not distributed as a part of GPL software. GPL software (the kernel) loads them at run-time. You are not forbidden to mix licenses, you are forbidden (by GPL) to distribute the code with mixed incompatible licenses. The kernel stuff is really muddy - we can have binary blobs, but we can not have ZFS because of a different (free) license. Go figure. :) Cheers, Ivan -- Cheerio, Ivan -- While you were hanging yourself on someone else's words Dying to believe in what you heard I was staring straight into the shining sun
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