Re: Would I be violating the GPL?

["Jeffrey V. Merkey" <jmerkey@wolfmountaingroup.com>]

David Schwartz wrote:

> > If you even take 2 minutes to actually inspect the NVIDIA video
> > driver sources
> > (extract the .run file with --extract-only, and cd to usr/src/nv)
> > you'll find
> > the "glue" which is provided as source, but not under the GPL,
> > does indeed
> > #include kernel headers at compile time.
> >
> > It does not distribute them, however, but it is completely nonsensical to
> > class this as having "no dependency". It has a compile time and runtime
> > dependency on the current kernel. What driver wouldn't?
> >    
>
> 	If I write source code that includes "stdio.h", I can do whatever I want
> with that source code, and I'm not bound by the license of any particular
> file that happens to be called "stdio.h". On the other hand, if I compile
> that source code including *your* "stdio.h" file, the resulting compiled
> output is likely a derived work of your file.
>
> 	So the source code is not a derivative work of any GPL'd files. The
> compiled driver may be, precisely because it contains bits and pieces of the
> header files.
>
> 	DS
>
>
>
>  
Correct.

Jeff
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