Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@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/

Both of these are third party packages, Ubuntu was forced to stop
shipping their pre-built packages a while ago for the obvious legal
reasons.

If anyone wants to take the legal risk on their own, sure, feel free to
take it on.

But good luck, some of us kernel developers take this kind of
infringement quite seriously...

thanks,

greg k-h
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