On 19/09/13 22:30, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
On 2013-09-19T10:49:20, C
wrote: Some distro communities complied with their demands (RH, openSUSE etc)... others didn't (PCLOS, and from what I can tell, Debian... the nVIDIA drivers are in the non-free repo for Debian). The others violate the license terms of the Linux kernel. They get away with it by being ignored and not interesting targets to sue; RHT or SUSE would not fall through the gaps.
The NVidia drivers don't explicitly forbid it, but they are incompatible with the Linux kernel terms.
Regards, Lars
Forgive me but what has the kernel licence terms have to do with the use of the nVidia driver? The driver is not incorporated into the kernel so there is no problem with distributing it, right? BC -- Using openSUSE 12.3, KDE 4.11.1 & kernel 3.11.1-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel Corsair "Vengeance" RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX550Ti 1GB DDR5 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org