Subject: Re: NVidia drivers: preliminary LKM version
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: current-users
Date: 06/22/2003 20:09:06
In article <1056304817.26908.2.camel@localhost>,
felix zaslavskiy <felix@students.poly.edu> writes:
> They released it under the gpl. As far as licensing is concerned is it
> possible to port it ?
NetBSD already had kernel source with a not BSD compatible license. They
were located in "gnu/src/sys" and not compiled into the default "GENERIC"
kernel. So it is possible.
It is of course prefered to ask the copyright owner to rerelease them
under a compatible license.
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://scheler.de/~matthias/