Hi,
The Nvidia drivers (or ATI ones) are not 'illegal'. The slides you point
to doesn't even claim they are. What is a breach of the GPL is
distributing them bundled with the kernel. But for people to download
these drivers and install them onto their systems is 100% in accordance
with the GPL and can not be labeled 'illegal' in any way or sense. The
GPL is a copyright license, focusing on distribution and what you are
allowed to distribute/redistribute. What you or anyone do on their own
machine(s) the GPL (and I think this is on purpose) have no rules
about.
Christian
On Thu, 2006-07-27 at 13:06 +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
Leszek Matok schrieb:
> Dnia 27-07-2006, czw o godzinie 08:14 +1000, Rodd Clarkson napisaĆ(a):
>> I'm a FC5 user with the Nvidia drivers installed (thanks to livna) so
>> this affects me.
> I use livna's nvidia-glx as well and let me too say go for it. [...]
BTW, the current maintainer of the nvidia-glx drivers wants to step
down. Anyone interested in taking it over? Please send me a mail
privately. I'd prefer if a group of at least two people could maintain
the drivers because it's a lot of frustrating work. I'm willing to lend
a helping hand in the beginning.
Arjan (or dwmw2 (or anyone interested in this topic)), if you read this:
Feel free to send a detailed and public warning in reply to this mail
why these drivers are bad, illegal and why one should not touch them.
For those interested in some details look at
http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html
http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf (pages 19
up to 26)
I should have never touched this crap.
CU
thl
BTW, mharris please update to Xorg 7.1 as soon as you can ;-)