> However, the GPL lawyers don't want to press the point too hard as they could easily lose a lot of hardware that would quickly render Linux useless.
Hyperbole aside about how Linux would be useless without nvidia blobs, the situation with nvidia is not about a mere GPL wrapper. The nvidia blob is using parts of the Linux API for which the Linux API explicitly declares "there's no GPL here". This declaration is enforced via C macros.
Hyperbole aside about how Linux would be useless without nvidia blobs, the situation with nvidia is not about a mere GPL wrapper. The nvidia blob is using parts of the Linux API for which the Linux API explicitly declares "there's no GPL here". This declaration is enforced via C macros.