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Originally Posted by strim
I think you should carefully read the GPL license.
Some people call GPL "viral", because if you stick together GPL-based code and additional code in one program, that additional code (which you supposedly signed NDA for) must also be distributed under GPL terms! In other words, you can't release only "2/3" of the source, you have to release the whole source to the program, or you are breaking the GPL license terms.
The authors are specifically licensing their works under GPL to avoid the situation where their code is redistributed as closed source.
Using BSD licensed code however is safe in this situation (as it does permit binary-only/closed source re-release).
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Under this situation it is impossible to release some kind of what ever code.
The Radeon-bios-interpreter is well documented on every plattform, so everyone can say it came from gpl-based sources.
On the other side I have the permission to use the p96-ddk to write drivers, but it is not allowed to spread the sources or parts of the ddk.