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Also, their legal reasoning (based on EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) is one that has been repeatedly contested by various people including some Linux authors.
by zurn 12y ago
Also, their legal reasoning (based on EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) is one that has been repeatedly contested by various people including some Linux authors.
- _delirium 12y agoPeople do dispute that reasoning, but I think this statement is correct that if you don't accept that reasoning, Debian also needs to stop shipping proprietary drivers [1] that depend on the same rationale (Debian currently considers such drivers non-free, but not GPL-violating). [1] e.g. https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-driver https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-driver