On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 15:50 +0200, Denis Leroy wrote:
Peter Gordon wrote:
> Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller wrote:
>
>> The Nvidia drivers (or ATI ones) are not 'illegal'. The slides you
point
>> to doesn't even claim they are. [...]
>
>
> No disrespect intended, but did you even read those slides? The 13th
> slide that Greg KH has on his site explicitly states - in big bold red
> lettering: "Closed source Linux kernel modules are illegal."
The problem is obviously that it's not up to him to decide.
I think you're mistaken there. Since Greg is one of the authors of the
kernel, to a large degree it IS up to him to decide under what terms
people get to use the parts of the kernel he wrote. Now Greg is a nice
guy and he makes them available under a restricted but open license
(generally called "GPL version 2"), but still.