Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1165 mails)

[Pascal Bleser <pascal.bleser@xxxxxxxxx>]

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Greg KH wrote:
> 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...

Greg, thanks for threatening.

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