On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 03:40:41PM -0500, Greg Meyer wrote: > It is not a violation of the GPL, it is a violation of nVidia's > license, which would allow distribution only with permission. > MandrakeSoft can get permission for the boxed sets, because those are > not redistributable. They can also get permission from nVidia to > allow download from Club site. But to include them on the > redistributable GPL set would prevent the GPL set from being > redistributable. If I downloaded the GPL set and wanted to > redistribute, I would have to get permission from nVidia to do so, and > so would anyone else that wanted to do the same. -- Greg
This has to be baloney. I know what nVidia's license says. I just can't imagine they would be so unreasonable as to want to make it more difficult for their customers to use their products. I'm sure if Mandrake approached them they would be willing to allow them to distribute the drivers in the "Download Edition." Rather, I think the situation is that nobody from Mandrakesoft has asked nVidia, because they oppose including non-free software in the "Download Edition." If we want nVidia to take us seriously we really need to not berate them unreasonably. Now if someone at Mandrakesoft has already asked and they said no, I have to wonder why there isn't a movement to just simply not buy nVidia hardware. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1821
