On Sunday 05 November 2006 16:06, you wrote: > On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:12:31PM +0000, Francis Giannaros wrote: > > 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=filel > > >ist& 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 > > ? > > That's just the source code for the module, you have to install it and > build it yourself. It is the end result of that action that is not able > to be distributed under the GPL. > > This is how Ubuntu handles the issue with this driver, a legal solution, > but not the nicest :) >
Just for the record this isn't the only, nor the widest used method. As I didn't notice before, the linux-restricted-modules is used. All a user has to do, from their point of view, is install that package and then install nvidia-glx (and alter xorg.conf) and they're good to go. Seems the tidiest way I've seen to do it. Regards, Francis.
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