Wayland And Nvidia Binary Blob Legal Issue.

Stefanos A. stapostol at gmail.com
Wed Sep 7 01:11:11 PDT 2011


2011/9/7 Steve Starr <steven.l.starr at gmail.com>

> I am trying to figure out what the issue is with Nvidia supporting Wayland
> for it's Binary Blob.
>
> From my understanding KMS symbols are GPL. NVidia can't legally use them.
> but hasn't the Nvidia Binary Driver always used some form of KMS?
>

It is said they have always used their own form of KMS but not *the* KMS
from the kernel.
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