Alle 02:05, sabato 24 gennaio 2004, Carlos E. R. ha scritto:
The Friday 2004-01-23 at 01:01 +0100, Anders Johansson wrote:
I think you'll find most of the base stuff, like glibc, is LGPL. Note that apps like Oracle's database, Lotus Domino and other "up-market" stuff isn't GPLed. You can get pretty far by using the LGPL stuff.
What happens for a kernel module? To use a pci card, you need to develop a kernel module. For example, Nvidia drivers I understand have a part that is open source (and needs to be recompiled for each kernel version), but another is completely closed - that makes the kernel say it is tainted, isn't it? How does NVidia do it?
Just curious.
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
I read an interview to Linus about that. He said that a driver developed from scratch, the kernel licence needs that driver to be GPL, otherwise, if the code is ported , there is no need for the driver to be GPL. Nvidia drivers are ported from Windows to Linux, so they can remain closed source. Praise