Q: "forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver..."
Hi, for 10.0 syslog for my new PC says: "forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver..." Is it expected that these reverse engineered drivers are absent in 10.1 for legal reasons? Regards, Ulrich
On Thursday 09 March 2006 09:57, Ulrich Windl wrote:
Hi,
for 10.0 syslog for my new PC says: "forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver..."
Is it expected that these reverse engineered drivers are absent in 10.1 for legal reasons?
I have complained to an official nvidia contact address about them not opening up their own network driver _from day 1_. They didn't seem to understand my point. They were all quick to recommend me the forcedeth driver, because they said it does everything that their driver does. I've also seen that Broadcom discontinued their own proprietary bcm5700 driver and are now supporting the opensource tg3 driver. So maybe some of them have started to see the light. I think you don't have to worry about the forcedeth driver, it will be there.
Hi, Ulrich Windl schrieb:
for 10.0 syslog for my new PC says: "forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver..."
Ah yes, my driver. ;-)
Is it expected that these reverse engineered drivers are absent in 10.1 for legal reasons?
forcedeth will be present. I had a pleasant talk with NVidia and they are happy about the driver, they even started to contribute to it. So no legal problems at all. Regards, Carl-Daniel -- http://www.hailfinger.org/
On 9 Mar 2006 at 12:43, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
Hi,
Ulrich Windl schrieb:
for 10.0 syslog for my new PC says: "forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver..."
Ah yes, my driver. ;-)
Is it expected that these reverse engineered drivers are absent in 10.1 for legal reasons?
forcedeth will be present. I had a pleasant talk with NVidia and they are happy about the driver, they even started to contribute to it. So no legal problems at all.
Most software explicitly forbids reverse-engineering. That's why I asked. Regards, Ulrich
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