Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 14th Dec 2006 03:00 UTC, submitted by SEJeff
"It's always an interesting day when you get to write a kernel patch, at the urging of Andrew Morton, that notifies the world that non-GPL Linux kernel modules will not work after January 2008 and write some poetry all in the same message."
More here. Hopefully, many closed-source drivers will be opened during the next year if this patch goes through. Update: Linus responds.
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2006-06-19
The courts do not take intent into account when adjudicating the meaning of a legal document.
I hear this a lot - not sure I would agree but I guess it could be true.
Good thing the GPL doesn't JUST use the word derivative huh? It goes on to set other criteria as well. The nvidia drivers certainly do not act independently now do they? If they were totally seperate then no "shim" would be needed huh?
Got any references about this set precedent?