Re: generated source files, GPL and DFSG
On Sat, 23 Jul 2005, David Nusinow wrote:
> This is true, but not because the driver isn't commented. It's because the
> specs for the card have not been released, and as such we don't know what
> the magic numbers mean. The hardware specs are entirely external to the
> source code for the driver itself, and as such it doesn't affect the
> freeness of the driver.
If the guys at Nvidia maintain the driver by referring to a separate copy of
the hardware specs and copying numbers from it into the driver when needed,
then the hardware specs are external to the source code of the driver.
If the guys at Nvidia maintain the driver by maintaining a version of the
code which has symbols in it, and give the driver to us by removing the
symbols, then to the extent which the symbols provide information about the
specs, the specs are *not* external to the source of the driver.
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