[tulip] tulip on solaris

[Thomas Dodd]

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 09:18:41AM -0500, Donald Becker wrote:
> > > What am I missing here?
> > > Since sun released the Solaris source code...
> >
> > They haven't released their source code under the GPL.  You can do what
> > you like with the *BSD drivers, but not with the Linux drivers.
> 
> I'm almost certain some non-GPL code has been released as a kernel
> module for the linux kernel by various card vendors.  One hears
> complaints about them not being updated from time to time.

NVIDIA 3D accel kernel module and SB live drivers come to
mind here. I think there's a SCSI driver too.

> Is there a reason why non-GPL code dynamically loaded into GPL code,
> is different from GPL code dynamically loaded into non-GPL code?

Did Linus make an exception to allow this specifically?

	-Thomas