Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:17:53PM +0100, Martin Schlander wrote:
> Torsdag 02 november 2006 10:33 skrev Stefan Dirsch:
> > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 08:55:22AM -0000, B.Weber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > I suspect it's unlikely packman would want to host these as they're dodgy
> > > both legally and morally. Only nvidia should have to take the risk.
> > > (Although no-one seems to have sued Debian and canonical yet)
> >
> > Hmm. Sure that Debian/Ubuntu provides prebuilt NVIDIA packages?
> 
> I'm pretty sure packages exist for Ubuntu, although they might be 3rd party. 
> I'm absolutely sure FC have them via the 3rd party ilvna repo:
> http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/6/i386/

Ok.

> The idea of Packman hosting the packages was presented before. I believe their 
> hesitation was not so much fear of GPL violation. More a matter of (1) 
> redistribution rights for Nvidia/ATi and (2) building the packages in the 
> first place, iirc.
> 
> I think the redistribution rights issue was cleared up, not sure about the 
> building issue.

Building should be pretty easy using the Source RPMs, e.g. use a
*local* osc build.

Best regards,
Stefan

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