OT: Re: [clue-tech] Shame shame

[David L. Anselmi]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On 6/18/06, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> 
>> No, this has nothing to do with the argument about using Free vs.
>> non-Free software.  It's about copyright law and licenses to distribute
>> copies of software.
> 
> IANAL, but I don't believe that Nvidia or VMware or ATI or any of the
> other vendors who have to make use of kernel modules are distributing
> copies of GPL software. By the same token, I don't believe that Oracle
> is doing this either.

I should clarify that my comments are not intended to suggest that 
VMWare's kernel module violates the GPL.  I don't know how they've 
constructed or licensed their code.  But it is not part of the main 
kernel tree so when the kernel developers change the API VMWare's module 
will break.

So "support" from VMWare may be more important than for most apps.

Dave