On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:04:24PM +0100, Christer Weinigel wrote: > Pekka Enberg wrote: >> Why are we discussing this again? The Linux kernel is distributed >> under the GPLv2 and even though there are some legal gray areas >> regarding derived work (think nvidia and ati binary blobs here), the >> license is not friendly towards proprietary drivers at all. > > Why? Because it is a gray area.
No, it really is not a gray area at all, especially when you are writing a new driver for Linux. Go talk to a lawyer if you want the details. thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
