On Wednesday 24 January 2007 16:09, Bradley Hook wrote:
Luke -Jr wrote:
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html#MereAggregation
"If modules are designed to run linked together in a shared address space, that almost surely means combining them into one program."
Dude, seriously, read the license yourself. It is obvious that you are relying on interpretations, which is the absolute worst thing you can do in the case of copyright and licensing.
Nobody is better qualified to interpret than the author.
If you honestly believe nVidia/ATI are violating either the legal requirements or moral attitude of the GPL, then why don't you file a lawsuit and see if the FSF, OSDL, or any other respected OSS community organizations come to side with you. Of course, you need to own some aspect of the Intellectual Property contained in the Linux kernel before you can even file suit.
There's been talk about kernel copyright holders possibly beginning to enforce it...