Originally posted by elanthis
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"Implied licenses often arise where the licensee has purchased a physical embodiment of some intellectual property belonging to the licensor."
Given that users, and even FOSS developers, who have purchased a graphics card, which is a physical embodiment of some intellectual property, have an implied license to use that selfsame intellectual property, then there should be no issue in writng support for accessing that selfsame intellectual property in layers of FOSS software which sit above the hardware. The intellectual property is implemented in the hardware, so IP owners asking for royalties from software projects for layers above the hardware would be double-dipping.
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