On Aug 24, 06 21:16:36 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > > need proprietary drivers froms ATI and Nvidia to have 3D acceleration in > > some machines. > > Neither ATI nor NVIDIA allow us to ship their drivers with our products > if I remember correctly. So there is not much we can do.
Actually, they would. It just we cannot ship them due to: > ALso while NVIDIA is "barely" accepted legal wise from the Kernel community, > the ATI kernel driver is supposed to have GPL problems. (IANAL) Both drivers are considered to be breaking the GPL by the kernel community. The ATI has additional license issues, but these only make the issue more visible. That's why we cannot ship them ourselves. The legal implications can give you nightmares if you think them through. Matthias -- Matthias Hopf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, SuSE labs, Zimmer 3.2.06, Tel. 74053-715 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
