Public bug reported: Binary package hint: nvidia-cg-toolkit
There is already an nvidia-cg-toolkit package which installs the 2004 files directly from Nvidia's website but this package should be made obsolete. At the time this package needed to be downloaded directly from Nivida's website due to copyright issues but this is no longer the case. If one downloads the tgz for Linux ( on this page: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/cg_toolkit.html#downloads ) there are multiple exemptions allowing for Debian to re-distribute the package. Looking at the .tgz file go to /./usr/local/Cg/docs/license.txt "2.1.3 Linux Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux operating system may be copied and redistributed, provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way (except for unzipping of compressed files)." nvidia-cg-toolkit should be packaged and included into Ubuntu as a real package now that the license has changed to allow it. By doing this it will then be possible to build debs that suggest or require it such as Ogre3D and Funguloids that current have it disabled but don't run as well as they could do. I have already built a deb for it which is available in my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~andrewfenn/+archive ** Affects: nvidia-cg-toolkit (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: nvidia-cg-toolkit (Debian) Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #502457 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502457 ** Also affects: nvidia-cg-toolkit (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502457 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- License change, time to package it up https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/284750 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
