From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: "Karel Kulhavý" <clock@twibright.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Compatibility of Nvidia NVNET driver license with GPL
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 01:36:58 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF26E8A.5070806@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031231073101.A474@beton.cybernet.src>
Karel Kulhavý wrote:
> Hello
>
> I faintly remember reading some article on the Net from Linus Torvalds stating
> something like if a piece of code is written specifically for Linux kernel, it
> must be under GPL.
>
> I have got an nVidia NForce2 board and downloaded their Ethernet driver (nvnet)
> and they say in README: "the network driver provided by NVIDIA is subject to
> the NVIDIA software license". How is with compatibility of such a behaviour
> with GPL of the kernel sources?
Since I am not a lawyer, my engineering suggestion would be to sidestep
legal issues by using "forcedeth" driver, to drive your nForce NIC.
It's fully GPL'd, and full open source.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-31 6:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-31 6:31 Karel Kulhavý
2003-12-31 6:36 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2003-12-31 10:43 ` Karel Kulhavý
2003-12-31 13:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-03 18:44 ` Pavel Machek
2004-01-03 18:53 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-01 5:11 ` Paul Jackson
2004-01-01 17:48 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-01-02 17:04 ` Chuck Campbell
2004-01-02 20:09 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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