Subject: Re: Tainting the kernel
From: Anthony Valentine (amv@akvalentine.com)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 23:01:41 AKDT
That is all it means. It won't hurt anything. I've been running nvidia
drivers for quite some time with no problems.
On Wed, 2002-07-10 at 21:15, Jon Reynolds wrote:
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> I have an nvidia video card and when I try and install it it says:
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> Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/video/NVdriver
> will taint the kernel: non-GPL license - NVIDIA
>
> Is this just because it has a non-GPL license and will it hurt anything
> to install it?
>
> Jon
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