Mark Kent wrote:
> begin oe_protect.scr
> George Ellison (undercover) <notamisfit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> >
> > George Ellison (undercover) wrote:
> >
> ><deletia>
> >
> >>
> >> I remember a little while back that Kooraa (Gentoo-based XGL LiveCD)
> >> came under fire from someone claiming to be a kernel developer that
> >> shipping a pre-compiled GeForce driver module was a GPL violation. It
> >> was enough to halt the distribution for a time, but it's done elsewhere
> >> too (my Kubuntu system automatically installs nvidia-kernel-common,
> >> although I've actually got to go find nvidia-glx to make any use of
> >> it). As for the game,
> >> that's just mere aggregation, and perfectly legal.
> >
> > Just took another look, and that's a four-year old link. I can't
> > remember any GPL pissing contests regarding it, so I guess it must have
> > been clear or under the radar.
> >
>
> I know that for debian, there are installer baby-grammes for such
> packages as cannot be shipped in a GPL-based distro. What happens if
> you include the drivers on another disk, say?
>
Doesn't even have to be another disk; the only real GPL issue with the
drivers is that they use GPL'd kernel code if they're shipped ready to
go.
>From the Big Nasty itself:
>In addition, mere aggregation of another work not based on the Program
>with the Program (or with a work based on the Program) on a volume of
>a storage or distribution medium does not bring the other work under
>the scope of this License.
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