Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders
From: Christopher Friesen
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 14:10:11 EST
Lee Revell wrote:
What nvidia is doing is already illegal under the GPLv2.
I don't think that's been legally proven.
The question is whether it is a derivative work. If their driver core
(aka the binary blob) is common to all their drivers (across multiple
OS's), it could be argued that the binary blob itself is not a
derivative work. One could almost view it as firmware.
If they ship the binary blob as well as code that interfaces the binary
blob with the kernel, and the end-user compiles the code together and
loads it into the kernel, does that necessarily violate the GPL?
Chris
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