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All I know about this incident is that Microsoft dropped some driver code into the kernel and chose to license it as GPL (they could easily have chosen BSD inst
by dtf 17y ago
All I know about this incident is that Microsoft dropped some driver code into the kernel and chose to license it as GPL (they could easily have chosen BSD instead). Why have they been "forced to comply with the GPL to avoid being sued for GPL violation"? Did I miss something?
* edit: I did miss the earlier thing about them mixing GPL with a binary blob in an earlier driver. Though who would be suing them in this case? And is this different from NVIDIA's driver?
- nailer 17y agoNVIDIAs Linux driver is the apparently 90% the same code as their Windows driver, making it not a derived work of the kernel as it doesn't exclusively require Linux.