[OT] The GPL and possible violations

[Andy Green]

Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:23 +0000, Andy Green wrote:
>> Andy Green wrote:
>>
>>>> in source and GPL'd that connects to the kernel interface

>>> FWIW nVidia and vmware at least do do this.  There is a technical
>>> advantage that it insulates the genuninely binary portion from ABI
>>> fragility by allowing small changes in the open shim part.

>> Whoops... kind of missed the key point there.... they provide sources to
>> compile but not under a free license.  Sorry about that.
> I don't know about vmware, but Nvidia doesn't. 
> 
> They provide a wrapper's sources, but the core of their work is binary
> only. It's basically the "sdk/link-kit" approach they apply, a pretty

Hi Ralf -

I expanded the quotes above to show this was in fact what I was talking
about.

-Andy
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