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minus-squaresynestia@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 months agoNot if they’re kernel modules, written from scratch, afaik
minus-squareHaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.orgOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThat’s not how it works. Kernel modules are part of the kernel and need to adhere to its license, which is GPLv2.
minus-squaresynestia@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoOf my saturdaymorning brain understands this correctly you might in fact be right https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic Edit: however: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1hdwm04/comment/m1zmt9d/ and https://docs.kernel.org/process/license-rules.html#id1 So I feel like this is definitely still possible and ‘legal’ depending on the implementation. Nvidia and AMD have done it for years. IANAL though :p
Not if they’re kernel modules, written from scratch, afaik
That’s not how it works. Kernel modules are part of the kernel and need to adhere to its license, which is GPLv2.
Of my saturdaymorning brain understands this correctly you might in fact be right https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic
Edit: however: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1hdwm04/comment/m1zmt9d/ and https://docs.kernel.org/process/license-rules.html#id1
So I feel like this is definitely still possible and ‘legal’ depending on the implementation. Nvidia and AMD have done it for years.
IANAL though :p