On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:49:40 -0500 David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 10:40AM, Alexander Kabaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:32:42 -0500 > >David Leimbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Ugh... the network driver portion of the nforce drivers is *not* > >> GPL'd but it > >> has a linux only and anti-reverse engineeing clause. > >> > >> Dave > > > >Then using the diver on FreeBSD will be a NVidia's license violation, > >wouldn't it? One more reason to keep it out of the tree. > > Just the network driver... the audio driver in the tarball is still > GPL'd. Well, network driver is a special case as it is this weird binary 'kernel' + OS shim combination which is getting popular lately. Have you thought about getting NVidia's permission to link non-GPLed shims with their binary object? A quick scan through NVidia audio driver sources suggests that the device is very similar to Intel ICH2 AC'97-based cards. Should you see is BSD-led ich.c driver can be reused instead of the Linux driver? -- Alexander Kabaev _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
