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Originally Posted by pholy
As far as I know, nobody has released the sources for a driver for the Epson chip yet, although both Hanlin and Netronix are making readers using the chip, and many companies are distributing them. Assuming the drivers are kernel-linked modules, I think they are all obligated to distribute the sources of their Linux sources.
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Not really. If it is not integrated into the Linux source tree, it does not qualify as a "derived work". That's a loophole in GPL that Nvidia and ATI are "exploiting" to release proprietary binary drivers. The only requirement is to tag module as proprietary, after which kernel will complain that it is tainted.