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From: <Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net>
To: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, paul@clubi.ie, riel@conectiva.com.br,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: RE:Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 05:37:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0f0fb5934050213DTVMAIL12@smtp.cwctv.net> (raw)

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"or later" perhaps copyright could be defined, and headers added to derivative?

Dean. Three ways to kill yourself, and ive been drove in one...

On 02 Jan 2003 01:57:01 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Paul Jakma <paul@clubi.ie>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, Hell.Surfers@cwctv.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, rms@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in closed source drivers?
Date: 02 Jan 2003 01:57:01 +0000
Message-ID: <1041472621.22606.4.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 00:31, Paul Jakma wrote:
> So I am not quite sure on what basis one could argue the NVidia 
> driver is not a derivative work, and hence it seems to me the NVidia 
> driver is technically in material breach of GPL.

I would assume Nvidia's view is based on US caselaw on what constitutes
a 'derived work'. The boundaries of copyright are not set by the GPL
authors

             reply	other threads:[~2003-01-02  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-02  5:37 Hell.Surfers [this message]
2003-01-02 21:42 ` Rik van Riel
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2003-01-03 13:02 ` NEURONET
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2003-01-01  5:46 ` David Lang
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2003-01-01  5:55 ` A Guy Called Tyketto
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2003-01-01  5:08 Hell.Surfers
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