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How does PoPOS accomplish this without violating the license of the kernel and the NVIDIA drivers?
by yrro 3y ago
How does PoPOS accomplish this without violating the license of the kernel and the NVIDIA drivers?
- dezgeg 3y agoThe sad truth is the license of non-GPL Linux kernel modules is very rarely cared about nor enforced. There are ton of embedded devices that don't bother with the NVIDIA shim scheme but ship with straight proprietary .ko:s on the device.
- chungy 3y agoSince it is a distribution by a hardware vendor that ships NVIDIA GPUs, I'll assume that they got a licensed from NVIDIA to ship their operating system with the proprietary drivers.
- yrro 3y agoPossibly, but what about the license of Linux? Surely nvidia.ko (being a derived work of both the GPL-licensed Linux kernel and the proprietary NVIDIA kernel object files) is non-distributable? Otherwise why does every other distribution faff around with akmods/DKMS, etc?