It looks like Nvidia’s proprietary driver was caught circumventing measures that keep proprietary code from mixing with GPL code in the kernel, deliberately violating the kernel’s license. The kernel maintainers are responding by adding more restrictions.
Disclaimer: I haven’t looked at the code.
It looks like Nvidia’s proprietary driver was caught circumventing measures that keep proprietary code from mixing with GPL code in the kernel, deliberately violating the kernel’s license. The kernel maintainers are responding by adding more restrictions.