best video card regarding license issues

[Steffen Evers <mldeb@forevers.de>]

Hello,

I have followed the recent discussion about vidoe cards on the list. I
have also been looking for a new video card and was thinking about a
Nvidea card. However, I have read about the license problems with
"tainting" (non-GPL) kernel modules for Nvidea acceleration. It seems
like that kernel hackers try to block out non-GPL code like this driver
(sounds reasonable to me ...).
In particular, Alan Cox has picked out the Nvidea kernel modules as a
good example how a module "taints" the kernel and explained that such
tainted kernels will be not debugged in the future.

So, what do you know about graphic cards regarding driver's licenses?

Bye, Steffen