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- Embed this notice@CounterPillow >It was apparently the xf86-video-nv Xorg 2d driver, no clue how that interfaces with the kernel though
I'd need to inspect the driver to come to a conclusion, but if that driver used SYSCALLs only, there is an exception in Linux (written is the most terrible fashion possible) that allows programs that use SYSCALLs to be under whatever license (plus it appears that it would be possible for most developers to have actually agreed to such exception, as it's listed under LICENSES/exceptions, unlike the EXPORT_MODULE() mechanism).
>back before kernel mode setting and might not actually be touching GPL'd code even (Xorg server itself is MIT, Xorg was in charge of bashing around the hardware back then)
Just because there's some expat licensed "piping" code doesn't make derivative works of a GPLv2'd work not a derivative work.