On Friday 03 November 2006 16:29, Greg KH wrote: > That's not the kernel driver, only the Xorg drivers, as per the list of > the files contained in this package: > > http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?searchmode=filelist&; >word=nvidia-glx&version=edgy&arch=i386 > > so I don't have a problem with them being distributed.
I see. What of http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/misc/nvidia-kernel-source ? > From what I remember, Ubuntu gets around this whole issue by > downloading the files from somewhere and then having the user (through > an automatic script) build the kernel driver and do the linking on their > own. That way they don't violate the GPL, and push the violation onto > the user (if the user happens to redistribute the binary). Perhaps I should speak to people since it seems my memory is playing up on me, but I can't remember doing anything but running sed on xorg.conf s/nv/nvidia/. Looking at the guide now I see it tells you to run nvidia-glx-config enable -- would it really be contained in there? If so, that's a remarkably tidy way of getting around such a thing, and I can't imagine why other distributions wouldn't adopt it too (like SUSE). > So again, Ubuntu is moving toward the same situation that Novell > currently has. And that's fine with me. I see; will be interesting to see how this turns out. Regards, Francis.
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