It's not a GPL violation if the code of the driver is not Linux specific. If the code base is used by Windows also, it's not a "derivative work" of Linux, so the GPL did not apply.
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It's not a GPL violation if
It's not a GPL violation if the code of the driver is not Linux specific. If the code base is used by Windows also, it's not a "derivative work" of Linux, so the GPL did not apply.