Debian Devs Realized They Were Shipping Pre-Built Nvidia Module, Breaking GPL

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

Debian developers and maintainers have just realized that they were shipping the ISO of the distribution with the a pre-compiled non-free Nvidia kernel module, which technically should be a violation of the Linux kernel.

With the recent discussion on the official support for ZFS in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, another interesting piece of information has come to light. One of our readers pointed us in the direction of a mailing list topic regarding the inclusion of a pre-compiled non-… (read more)

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