"Licensed" codecs

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 23:17, Mark Hoover wrote:
> From: Pavel Rosenboim <pavelr at coresma.com>
> 
>  >> the _modules_ are of course legal (as in "you can write and use them
>  >> yourself"), but you cannot _distribute_ them without the sources,
>  >> at least according to the way FSF interprets GPL.
>  >
>  > Well, NVIDIA distributes its modules without sources, and so do other
>  > companies.
> 
> Actually, you can see the code to the interface layer.  You just can't 
> get the code for the driver itself.  A compromise that I for one am 
> willing to live with......

I think the only thing relevant here is whether the owners of the GPLed
code in question (i.e. the kernel code and structures Nvidia use) are
willing to live with it.

Nils
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