Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?
Il giorno lun 3 ott 2022 alle ore 21:50 Simon McVittie ha scritto: > > On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 21:12:50 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > Are you referring to the special permission given by e-mail by Donald Randall > > in 2003? > > I think you're misreading the copyright file. Randall Donald is a Debian > contributor who asked Nvidia for permission to redistribute their driver, > and got a reply (which is quoted in the copyright file) from someone > named Andy. > Thanks Simon for this clarification but it is not enough yet and I will quickly explain to you why. Could you bring to our attention the original e-mail or the name/e-mail address of Andy working for nVidia, please? Because the e-mail address rdon...@debian.org does not exist anymore and he does not reply by Linkedin. I personally spoke with a USA nVidia manager about licensing in a video conference call and he assured me that the only way to legally receive the nVidia software is downloading from their website. Moreover, he was acknowledged that the aim was to use Debian. It might happen that everybody in the two teams was wrong but why not suggest to rely directly on Debian, then? It would have been great. Best, R- P.S.: forget the other email without the reply to the m-list, thanks.
Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?
On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 21:12:50 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > Are you referring to the special permission given by e-mail by Donald Randall > in 2003? I think you're misreading the copyright file. Randall Donald is a Debian contributor who asked Nvidia for permission to redistribute their driver, and got a reply (which is quoted in the copyright file) from someone named Andy. smcv
Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?
Il giorno lun 3 ott 2022 alle ore 20:42 Simon McVittie ha scritto: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 19:52:23 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > > reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging > the > > content is prohibited by their license. What's your opinion on this? > > Please note that the Debian maintainers of nvidia-graphics-drivers have > received special permission from Nvidia beyond what is allowed by the > license in the .run archive. Please see > > https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/copyright-510.85.02-2 > (or equivalent for other versions) for details. > > If you plan to repackage this driver outside Debian or distribute it > commercially, you will need to talk to Nvidia directly, or obtain your > own legal advice. > Thank you Simon for the prompt reply. Are you referring to the special permission given by e-mail by Donald Randall in 2003? Randall Donald http://www.khensu.org rdon...@debian.org https://www.linkedin.com/in/randalldonald/ On which Linkedin profile is reported a volunteer activity as external for NVIDIA Volunteering Debian Developer and Archive MaintainerDeveloper and Archive Maintainer Jan 2001 - Jan 2010 · 9 yrs 2 mosJan 2001 - Jan 2010 · 9 yrs 2 mos Science and Technology Debian developer most notably responsible for leading the NVIDIA packaging team. 2001 - 2010 Please, could you explain to me how a company external voluntary could have delivered a legally binding permission? Best regards, R-
Re: GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?
On Mon, 03 Oct 2022 at 19:52:23 +0200, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote: > reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging the > content is prohibited by their license. What's your opinion on this? Please note that the Debian maintainers of nvidia-graphics-drivers have received special permission from Nvidia beyond what is allowed by the license in the .run archive. Please see https://tracker.debian.org/media/packages/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/copyright-510.85.02-2 (or equivalent for other versions) for details. If you plan to repackage this driver outside Debian or distribute it commercially, you will need to talk to Nvidia directly, or obtain your own legal advice. smcv
GeForce nvidia driver license for commerical use?
Hi all, reading this link here below, it seems that compilation and repackaging the content is prohibited by their license. What's your opinion on this? https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/10082/geforce-nvidia-driver-license-for-commerical-use In fact, up today (515.76) the .run archive that contains the driver and the CUDA libraries is licenced in a way for which two essential operations are not permitted: §2.1.2 does not allow the compilation essential for deliver a binry driver §2.1.3 does not allow to repackage the .run content in many .deb packages The license could be found inside the .run archive downloadable from this url https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix Best regards, R-
