Comment # 28 on bug 1173158 from Martin Wilck

Forgive my ignorance: why is the format in which we are shipping the drivers
today any less against upstream kernel PoV? Why does it matter whether the
module is built on some build server, or on the end user's system? Upstream
dreads the fact that the drivers are _loaded into the kernel_, and the "insmod"
is precisely the moment in which the linkage of GPL'd code and GPL-incompatible
code is taking place. I don't think upstream cares much how, where, and by whom
such a module was built.

It's been a long time since I last looked at the NVidia packages, so I'm unsure
whether the GPL would already be violated by compiling and linking the driver.
If so, NVidia has messed it up even worse than I thought.

Anyway, I'm not a lawyer. And I understand that SUSE itself won't ship such
packages in any case, simply because they are proprietary.