On Sun, 28 Nov 2021 at 17:19, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:
On 11/28/21 1:49 PM, Barry Scott wrote:
> Having anyone but the end user install the NVIDIA driver was explicitly
> not allowed. In a previous job we wanted to bundle the NVIDIA driver
> with a linux product and could not get NVIDIA to agree to a suitable license
> to allow this.
>
> I'm not sure how Ubuntu has work around license issue.

The current NVIDIA GFORCE end-user license
<https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/geforce-license/> has an exception for Linux:
(there is also a clause that limits use in data centers with a bitcoin exception):

2.1.2 Linux/FreeBSD Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section
2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux or FreeBSD operating
systems, or other operating systems derived from the source code to these operating
systems, may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are
not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files). 
 
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