On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:17:53PM +0100, Martin Schlander wrote: > Torsdag 02 november 2006 10:33 skrev Stefan Dirsch: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:55:22AM -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I suspect it's unlikely packman would want to host these as they're dodgy > > > both legally and morally. Only nvidia should have to take the risk. > > > (Although no-one seems to have sued Debian and canonical yet) > > > > Hmm. Sure that Debian/Ubuntu provides prebuilt NVIDIA packages? > > I'm pretty sure packages exist for Ubuntu, although they might be 3rd party. > I'm absolutely sure FC have them via the 3rd party ilvna repo: > http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/
Ok. > The idea of Packman hosting the packages was presented before. I believe > their > hesitation was not so much fear of GPL violation. More a matter of (1) > redistribution rights for Nvidia/ATi and (2) building the packages in the > first place, iirc. > > I think the redistribution rights issue was cleared up, not sure about the > building issue. Building should be pretty easy using the Source RPMs, e.g. use a *local* osc build. Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
