video cards

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Adrian Griffis wrote:
> nVidia is not distributing any GPL'd code.  The are simply distributing
> their own proprietary driver.  They aren't even working the driver into my
> kernel; The are simply telling me how to work their driver into my kernel. 
> Exactly how are they violating the GPL?

Here's a hint: Linux is not a microkernel. It doesn't have "drivers" in the 
sense that Mach or Windows do. The only way to add such hardware support is 
to use internal Linux code to make a patch/module for it.