Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)fenrus.demon.nl&gt; wrote: The point is that the kernel is available under GPLv2, and /that/ decides what is (or isn't) allowed. Sure, any reasonable judge will take into (some) account the wishes of the author(s) (in general, owners of the relevant copyrights) where the license isn't crystal clear, but what those areas are (and what the law/the judge says about them) isn't Greg's call. The nVidia (et al) folks certainly did look into the matter, and I'd bet their lawyers told them there was no (or just a very tiny) chance for them doing wrong before they went ahead, so I'd guess Greg is mistaken. Also remember that the code was written by a collection of thousands, it isn't easy to ask all them (and then weigh their opinions according to some "importance of contribution" measure...). -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513