[qalmakka]

Caught in the crossfire? NVIDIA has been skirting around the GPL for years with its Linux module, without ever contributing back. They've being hindering the adoption of Wayland for years due their refusal to implement GBM in their driver. I guess they kinda deserve the flak, especially since AMD and Intel have shown the world time and time again that you can have a fully open GPU driver merged with Linux without any negative downsides.

[izacus]

So basically kernel team repeatedly breaking the driver is how they want to bludgeon nVidia into giving them all their code and forcing them into supporting their own APIs?

Seems like petty behaviour to break users hardware just because you disagree with driver licensing.

[baq]

Yes, so they stop getting away with license shenanigans? The kernel is GPL, this surely isn’t hard to understand for Nvidia lawyers.

[dthul]

They closed a loophole that allowed proprietary modules to access GPL only functionality.