minus-squaresynestia@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-22 days agoOf my saturdaymorning brain understands this correctly you might in fact be right https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic Edit: however: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1hdwm04/comment/m1zmt9d/ and https://docs.kernel.org/process/license-rules.html#id1 So I feel like this is definitely still possible and ‘legal’ depending on the implementation. Nvidia and AMD have done it for years. IANAL though :p linkfedilink
minus-squaresynestia@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoNot on GitHub or any other platform complying with takedown requests though. linkfedilink
minus-squaresynestia@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Louis Rossmann taunts Bambu Lab by hosting banned 3D Printer firmware fork, dares $1 billion company to sue him — more creators pledge support and boycotts, Snapmaker donates equipment to embattled delinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoNot if they’re kernel modules, written from scratch, afaik linkfedilink
Of my saturdaymorning brain understands this correctly you might in fact be right https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLStaticVsDynamic
Edit: however: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/1hdwm04/comment/m1zmt9d/ and https://docs.kernel.org/process/license-rules.html#id1
So I feel like this is definitely still possible and ‘legal’ depending on the implementation. Nvidia and AMD have done it for years.
IANAL though :p