On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 14:23 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Andy Green wrote: > > >> in source and GPL'd that connects to the kernel interface > > > FWIW nVidia and vmware at least do do this. There is a technical > > Whoops... kind of missed the key point there.... they provide sources to > compile but not under a free license. Sorry about that. I don't know about vmware, but Nvidia doesn't. They provide a wrapper's sources, but the core of their work is binary only. It's basically the "sdk/link-kit" approach they apply, a pretty common way to avoid restrictions of OpenSource licenses. The distributor ships binaries, but leaves final linking and compiling of the "glue" code to the end user. Ralf
