On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 22:00:07 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > The problem with this is that Nvidia license non-free code for use in > > their drivers. They are not allowed to distribute the source, or other > > information about the code, so they have two choices for Linux > > drivers: > > They could rewrite it step by step and release the rewritten parts > to the community.
No they couldn't, at least not without ensuring that no one working on the new code has seen any of the licensed code. So they need to pay a separate team of developers to develop an alternative to something they've already paid for. Can you see them going for that? Such a task is better undertaken by people outside of Nvidia, but if it was that simple it would have been done already. -- Neil Bothwick Windows: just another pane in the glass -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
