Can NVIDIA's binary only drivers be included in cooker / 7.1? Or at least in
contrib?
The licence on nvidia's site - http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/xfree86_40.html
- seems to be very restrictive
However I guess that many people would like to have 3D support with their
TnT/Geforce working right out of the box. Newbies for example may have
troubles installing it, since the binary files on nvidia's site only work
with Redhat's 6.1 2.2.12-20 kernel
Here's a sample of the licence from
http://www.nvidia.com/drivers/xfree86_40.html
2. GRANT OF LICENSE.
2.1 Rights and Limitations of Grant. NVIDIA hereby grants Customer the
following non-exclusive,
non-transferable right to use the SOFTWARE, with the following
limitations:
2.1.1 Rights. Customer may install and use one copy of the SOFTWARE on a
single computer, and except for
making one back-up copy of the Software, may not otherwise copy the
SOFTWARE. This LICENSE of
SOFTWARE may not be shared or used concurrently on different computers.
2.1.2 Limitations.
No Reverse Engineering. Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile, or
disassemble the SOFTWARE,
nor attempt in any other manner to obtain the source code. No Separation
of Components. The SOFTWARE
is licensed as a single product. Its component parts may not be separated
for use on more than one computer,
nor otherwise used separately from the other parts. No Rental. Customer
may not rent or lease the
SOFTWARE to someone else.
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