Re: [OT] Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?

From: Paul Jakma (paul@clubi.ie)
Date: Thu Jan 02 2003 - 08:28:53 EST

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On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Milosz Tanski wrote:

> be forced to use it, and thus open up their code). I'll see you in
> two years, when you fully complete the drivers? Ok, bye.

NVidia would not release the neccessary specs to the project to allow
them to write acceptable drivers. That is why they are so lacking -
but its amazing they even got that far.

> P.S: I think the code there is under a BSD (BSDish, MITish licence,
> ...).

XFree licence, yes. Which allows binary only modules.

regards

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